More recently, mayors have become tap-conscious for personal reasons.
But gold mining, which accounts for a large share of the value of mine exports, has declined as mines have become tapped out, and protests have stalled a major new gold-mining project, known as Conga, in the Cajamarca region.
And many of the existing investors, particularly on the angel side, become "tapped out" or "want to stay diversified" when approached for bridge financing.
New York becomes tap city as performances celebrate this festive dance art.
New York becomes Tap City for nine days starting tomorrow, when Tap City 2001: The New York City Tap Festival opens at studios and performance spaces around Manhattan.
Interestingly, his father did have aspirations for Kevin to become a tap dancer, like Fred Astaire.
If he had to do it over again, Mr. Mosley said, he would have become a tap dancer.
He graduated from Tulane University with a law degree but then announced to his family that he planned to move to New York and become a tap dancer.
However, the director was fired from Get to Know Your Rabbit which was about a businessman (Tom Smothers) who decides to become a tap-dancing magician and the film was finished by others; it was not released until 1972.
But afterwards, all subsequent checkouts become one-tap payments.
"BOOTMEN" A young steelworker in Newcastle, Australia, determined to break the pattern of his family's life, becomes a tap dancer.
