Word: towered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...things in Las Vegas are actually meant to be there. Not the ersatz Eiffel Tower at the Paris casino, not the white tigers from India that frolic nightly with Siegfried and Roy, and certainly not the lush residential lawns that grow emerald-green year round in the desert region. But while the landmark replicas and exotic felines draw tourists and dollars, the well-coiffed lawns drain the city's resources because of the amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with...
...LEAN YEARS The tower began leaning almost from the beginning, in 1173. Over the course of the tower's 200-year construction, builders tried to compensate for the list, resulting in a slightly banana-shaped structure...
...attempt to straighten the tower, builders try using thicker stones on the downward side...
About 1198, documents show, a bell ringer worked at the tower, which was about this high at the time...
Sources: Coordination Committee for the Safeguard of the Tower of Pisa; University of Pisa; CS Informatica, Pisa: Eyewitness Guide to Italy; Associated Press