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To: tejek who wrote (459149)	2/24/2009 7:08:54 PM
From: TopCat	Respond to of 1575396

"From the Colorado River and from artesian wells. That's pretty typical for the West." Wow...is there anything you are not an authority on?

To: tejek who wrote (459149)	2/24/2009 7:17:16 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575396

Gee the dems are dumping Sen Burris, where the outrage

To: tejek who wrote (459149)	2/24/2009 7:18:47 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575396

you don't care that corporate america is wasting water for multi-million dollar profit ? what about the children ? are you a hypocrite ?

To: tejek who wrote (459149)	2/24/2009 8:30:32 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575396

>> It wasn't before last summer. A pretty good argument can be made that you're wrong. The really premium places were full, but almost any of the Harrahs properties other than Caesars always had empty rooms, even on weekends, and the South end of LV Blvd. (Luxor, Mandalay, MGM, Excalibur, plus the old ones down there) were almost never sold out. Since last summer there are substantial new Strip properties like Palazzo and Encore as well as the huge City Center project and significant off-Strip properties like expanded and new Station properties Aliante and Red Rock. Vegas was still growing. But clearly, they were getting way, way too developed to be able to survive a significant downturn. Harrahs is pretty exposed with Caesars, Harrahs, Imperial Palace, Paris, Rio, plus the others they've recently bought. There is little doubt they were planning on doing something big on that side of the Strip, across the street from Caesars. Had we not had this economic downturn, I have no doubt they'd have been tearing stuff down on that side in the not-too-distant future to undertake a huge project to match Venetian and Wynn; they've bought the entire long block on that side of LV Blvd.