We all know it as the city of sin, Las Vegas; however, despite the sinful part of the city and the once mob influence, this city has developed greatly from the last two decades especially in certain industries such as construction, real estate, retail trade, transportation, general services. After World War II city of Las Vegas, Nevada was a little desert city with no idea what would hit them following the next few decades. Like most happenings around the world, Las Vegas did not start on the right foot, it was know as a "criminal city-state" (Sally, 11) and it continue into the late eighties were "the city's original regime of organized crime had evolved and transfigured itself, at least in part, into a more refined and outwardly legitimate corporate oligarchy" (Sally,11) defining that Las Vegas did not only start the legalization of gambling it also helped spread the legalization across forty-seven other states, as well as Native American reservations.
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English: The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas SignAfter constructing both tables, an apparent result concluded while comparing the figures of the metropolitan areas of Las Vegas, Nevada to the rest of the US.
The figures (figure back of essay) of the US During the time periods of 1987-2000 were quite obvious that nationally the US progressed well during this time frame. There were only two area that had suffered negative numbers; Manufacturing, and Federal Military, otherwise all of the other industries compiled an average of 25%-30% increase. The services industry tops all others with a 57.03%. However, in relation towards the metropolitan area of Las Vegas the figures of the US do not come close. For the duration of the thirteen year time period, Nevada's numbers were astonishing, most industries except for three of them (Federal Civilan, Federal Military, and State Government) were the only ones...