Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public money would be spent on the convention costs would be met through private sources, meaning wealthy Texas REpublicans, oil companies, a local newspaper, and others. Throughout the downtown area, a logo welcoming the Republicans to Dallas (an elephant inside a large "D" for Dallas) was displayed on all storefront windows and flags with the logo flapped next to American flags from streetlight. Cab drivers were brought together at a big meeting and told that if they presented Dallas in a good light to their fares, they and Dallas would get more business in the future...
...decent drycleaner?" you muse, wishfully eyeing the vacant storefront. A deli? Please, let it be a deli...
...realm of East-West relations. In the eyes of some resident U.S. citizens, that criticism has undertones of a more generalized anti-Americanism. On the whole, protest has so far been peaceful: demonstrations in front of the American consulate in Frankfurt, or the display in a Lübeck storefront of quotes designed to portray the U.S. as a warmonger. (Example: "We don't want war, but. . ." attributed to former NATO Commander and Secretary of State Alexander Haig.) Occasionally the mood has turned ugly. When U.S. Vice President George Bush visited the city of Krefeld last June...
Violent crime Marielito-style came to dominate the district slowly, as Castro's ex-inmates moved in from Miami. The new arrivals overran a 25-block area around the intersection of Wilshire and Alvarado. Their criminal specialties are small time: purse snatchings, storefront stickups, car thefts, burglaries. What distinguishes the offenses, however, is the viciousness with which they are carried out. When a robbery victim gave up his wallet to Cuban attackers but refused to yield his ring, they hung him from an iron fence by his hand. The ring came off; so did a finger. When...
...while at least, William Alderdice, 39, and his brother James, 26, seemed to have the Midas touch. During the past three years, they transformed a small storefront jewelry business in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., into the International Gold Bullion Exchange (IGBE), a thriving enterprise with 1,000 employees, branch offices in Dallas and Los Angeles, and 1982 sales of $80 million. William Alderdice, the company's chief executive, bragged that IGBE was the biggest gold and silver dealer in the U.S. In television commercials and ads splashed across such newspapers as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...