Word: manhattanization
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...that seems unlikely, if only for logistical reasons; lower Manhattan is still a disaster area, and the idea of a community of traders arriving at the New York Stock Exchange to take their usual place under the Big Board while rescue workers sift through the rubble for bodies is faintly ludicrous at this point...
...Manhattan-bound W train packed with rush-hour commuters emerged from the underground and burst into the sunlight on the Manhattan Bridge Tuesday morning, the familiar New York City skyline was gone, made invisible by a thick canopy of jet-black smoke...
...train resumed and slowly crept closer to Manhattan, passengers on the train talked excitedly to one another, while others sat silence and a few closed their eyes and folded their hands in prayer...
...Finally, the train sunk back into the underground on the Manhattan Bank of the river and the smoke and flames disappeared from sight...
...York Mayor Rudy Giuliani promised Wednesday that the hole in the Manhattan skyline would someday be filled again. Wall Street will get back to business, and before long the irrepressible nature of investing will have filled the holes blasted in its own confidence. But in a way we have not had to deal with during this boom-and-bust decade, public worries about the economy have to do with much more than the just "the economy...