Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...area's prime beaches and luxury resorts, as well as the hip, Art Deco district of South Beach. Outside a thin necklace of fancy hotels, parks and wealthy enclaves lining the waterfront, Miami comprises largely the kind of inner-city neighborhoods that never make it into the tourist brochures. Middle-class flight--first of whites and now of Cubans--has made Miami increasingly a city of struggling, often illegal immigrants from Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. The downtown business district, which pays about 30% of Miami's taxes, is losing patience. "Taxes in Miami are twice what they...
...Congress, the first question that comes to mind is "where are all the books?" I talked with my friends, and no one I knew had ever actually found a book there. My mission would be to find sometbing to verify that Widener was a library and not a fraudulent tourist attraction like the "John Harvard" statue, a monument to a student whom the faculty thought looked cool...
SENTENCED. MARTIN BRYANT, 29, gunman who killed 35 and injured 19 at a Tasmanian tourist spot in April; to 35 life terms; in Hobart, Australia...
Forget artists and spies; the real market for Sony's compact new digital camcorder is teens who are forced to endure the embarrassment of tourist dads pointing their giant cameras at every Paris cafe. This tiny, 1-lb. DCR-PC7 camera, with its 2.5-in. screen that swivels out to preview each shot, lets Dad always have Paris and the kids their dignity. ($3,199; Sony...
...every presidential winner in the 20th century except Dwight Eisenhower. Geographically, it is the center of the country, containing elements of Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western regions. Economically, it has rich farmland, thriving suburbs, big cities and impoverished ghettos. As farm communities die in the north, retirement and tourist centers like Branson flourish in the south. And it's a home to the great Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which have defined much of America's identity and destiny...