Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trump, however, may have other motives in mind. When his vast, 1,250-room Taj Mahal hotel and casino is finished in December 1989, he will control one- quarter of the casino hotel rooms in Atlantic City. Last year almost 4 million people visited the city, but only half a million arrived by air. If Trump diverts some weekend shuttle flights to Atlantic City, he could offer package deals to lure gamblers from up and down the Eastern seaboard. "That's just what Atlantic City needs to goose up its growth rate," says Neidl. "It could be a real shot...
...surface similarities and no more. But they have a fascination as wishful symbols, and are an index of the powerful changes that have occurred in America and the world in the past 28 years. The real meaning of a comparison between the elections of 1960 and 1988 is the vast difference that separates them...
...long procession of buses pulling off Route 51 in central Illinois one afternoon at 3:30 and sweeping up to the Del Monte canning factory. The press corps (numbering some 120 now) dutifully takes its place not far from enormous piles of corn that are being dumped onto the vast concrete acreage, then pushed by special dozers toward the trench that will catch the corn on conveyer belts and carry it with a kind of clanking Modern Times idiot ingenuity up a ramp to be mechanically husked and then borne inside the maw of the factory to its fate...
Like many other colleges, such as MIT and the University of Virginia, the vast majority of fraternities and sororities at Ole Miss are still all-Black or all-white. The 13-year-old Phi Beta Sigma is the only Black fraternity to have its own house. It became the first Black fraternity on campus when it was founded in 1975. There are now three Black sororities and four Black fraternities...
HARVARD has one thing to be grateful for--a residential system in which personal preference and random choice are all that decide where the vast majority of students live...