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...It is the land of cowboys, freedom, Yellowstone (the park and the TV show), American Indians, big hats and vast fortunes grafted from a merciless landscape....
...The other third came from Tom’s eponymous, internationally renowned landscape company....
...Carlo Roncancio, a photographer who had nightclubs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, greets me with a vast hello....
...Morrison-Ignatieff — who gilded the sword’s thistle-design hilt and grip, as well as its pommel cap and scabbard mounts — has a 200-year-old wooden box in his workshop, three floors above Glasgow’s Argyll...
...“For the first time in my life I began to question whether I was right to keep all my money in Germany,” says the 57-year-old, referring to the political and economic landscape in his homeland....
...Almost all are family-owned, according to data from the Napa Valley Vintners trade association....
...I open a drawer to discover spare inner tubes, patch kits and various tools for bike maintenance, all of which we are free to use....
...“We can’t keep up,” says Heather Mason, president of the National Bicycle Dealers Association....
...— and Brutalist megastructures are still tainted by association....
...When the Financial Times visited in November the park was a desolate landscape of static roller coasters and dried-out water rides....
...Mike Whitty, director of the Oregon Park Managers Association, is a former lawyer who has lived in, owned and managed parks locally....
...Much of that money, as they always tell visiting foreigners, goes on maintenance....
...“When we first moved, most of the houses were ranch-style 1950s and ’60s houses,” says Craig Steblay, president of the Arcadia Camelback Mountain Neighbourhood Association and a resident since 1986....
...He has since worked with various public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the American Public Gardens Association....
...Its desert landscape is otherworldly. Philip Green, the British retail mogul, recently took refuge from legal troubles back home at Tucson’s luxurious Canyon Ranch spa....
...In 1972 the couple published a book, together with Steven Izenour, entitled Learning from Las Vegas....
...In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, the National Rifle Association postponed a series of television advertisements that were due to run in Virginia where it supports the Republican candidate in the race...
...She paints a blissful picture of her childhood on a 977-acre ranch in San Antonio, Texas, spent leading her two younger brothers astray....
...Almost 30 years ago I drove from Las Vegas, where I worked in a casino, to pay homage to one of the great American landscapes. The car I had borrowed broke down....
...The company is now leasing one of Solyndra’s old Silicon Valley buildings....
...The rocks beneath Rhys’s Alpine vineyard are between one and three million years old. Horseshoe Ranch’s are 11 million....
...“But after two years or so they look as if they were 15 years old because there is no maintenance or control over the tenant mix....
...association, is forecasting further growth out to 2030 at least....
...“We still have somewhere between 45,000 and 55,000 properties in some form of default,” says Kolleen Kelley, president of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors....
...In fact, the solar landscape looks so messy it is difficult to imagine it poses a threat to anyone, let alone the much larger conventional power industry....
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