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Article: In the county that's home to Las Vegas, the boom times just keep on coming.(Clark County, Nevada)(Far West: Issuer Profile)
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- The Bond Buyer
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- July 25, 1997
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When Dale W. Askew was a boy in the late 1940s, his home town of Las Vegas was little more than a rest stop for weary travelers headed to Los Angeles.
As the top administrator in Clark County, Nev., which includes Las Vegas, Askew has witnessed the extraordinary changes that have transformed this desert oasis into the fastest growing region in America.
Today the hitching posts that once dotted Main Street have been replaced by an array of glittering, fantasy-action casinos patterned after King Arthur's castle, the Egyptian pyramids, and the Manhattan skyline, to name just a few.
And outside the bright lights of downtown, residential neighborhoods have ...