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twitterFLASHPOINT for Apr 28, 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007 | 7:24 a.m.
Sometimes it's the little things - in this case, 10 acres, give or take. Local journalist Steve Friess was nosing around about CityCenter, the MGM Mirage megaproject. He thought it odd that the size was usually described in newspaper accounts as being 66 acres but that the project's own propaganda said it was 76. So what happened to the missing 10 acres? Friess asked MGM Mirage mouthpiece Alan Feldman, who gave this priceless answer: "Please use 76. There's some technical debate internally, but 76 is in use far and wide and it's not inaccurate." The ever-wry Friess, on his blog, pointed out that someone could measure the actual acreage, but "I don't really care that much." I bet someone at MGM Mirage does.
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