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Word: vegasized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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While visiting the desert metropolis of Las Vegas for a weekend, I was appalled by the amount of money being blown by casino owners like Steve Wynn who aim to duplicate the world's most famous locales [SHOW BUSINESS, Oct. 26]. I've been going to Vegas for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

I doubt this new, arty Vegas will attract the likes of the Astors and Rockefellers, and Joe Blow from Omaha may be a little intimidated. Steve Wynn and the other corporate boys are going to need some of the luck that everybody wishes for when they go to Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Las Vegas now seems like a giant strip mall of world travel: let's see it faster; let's have it newer; let's not have to go far from home to visit it. Here's a suggestion to my fellow Americans: Go take a stroll along the shores of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

By chance, I was an overnight guest at the Bellagio the week Steve Wynn's $1.6 billion Las Vegas hotel with the $300 million art collection opened, and I have one question that was left unanswered even by the extensive coverage in TIME: Why didn't Wynn spend more of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Money off High Costs | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

What brings out what the psychologists call pricing behavior even in my wife is the Las Vegas custom of emphasizing how much any new hotel costs--a custom I think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Money off High Costs | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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