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Article: The only constant about Las Vegas is constant change.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- August 25, 1997
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LAS VEGAS _ Remember the first rule of Las Vegas history: The only thing constant is constant change.
New hotels, new casinos, new restaurants. The wrecker ball wipes away the past as the architect inks up next year's fantasy world.
Las Vegas is all about money: Yours becoming theirs.
The megahotels keep being built, the video poker machines get installed and the casino owners keep smiling because of a simple fact: There are more losers than winners. When the clock strikes midnight, more people go home as pumpkins than as Cinderella.
``I came to Las Vegas in a $10,000 Cadillac and went home in a $100,000 Greyhound bus,'' ...