Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defines about a dozen offenses punishable by lethal injection, including murders of on-duty cops. It does not apply to juveniles or the mentally disabled. "This law alone won't stop crime, but it is an important step in the right direction," Pataki said. Cuomo, now practicing law in Manhattan, told the Associated Press that he hopes the courts will find the law unconstitutional. "It's from fear, anger, shortsightedness and some cynicism coming together to overwhelm intelligence," Cuomo said of the measure...
Such a book would be useful to a Harvard student or researcher interested in studying the social lives of undergraduates here--if the Porcellian and the archives didn't treat it like the papers of former Harvard president and Manhattan Project participant James Bryant Conant...
...week after Valentine's Day, but the spirit of the occasion was still happily reverberating for New York's Republican Senator ALFONSE D'AMATO. He called a press conference at a Manhattan restaurant not to discuss Whitewater or debate the balanced-budget amendment but to gush and blush, tell the world that he is in love and even sing a few bars of It's a Sin to Tell a Lie. The object of his affection is CLAUDIA COHEN, the multimillionairess ex-wife of Revlon chairman Ron Perelman and the current gossip correspondent for TV's Live with Regis...
...This is the presentation of yourself," says Loretta Farrell, human resources director at First Manhattan Consulting Group. "You want the job of the person sitting across from you, so dress like them. Dress as you would if you were going to meet a client. Say to yourself 'I wouldn't mind meeting a CEO dressed like this...
Twentysomething Gen-Xers hang at Manhattan's MindVox and contemplate 50 more years of living under the shadow of Yuppies...