Word: manhattanization
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...Manhattan headquarters of the IRS, visitors were greeted at the door by a well-bred Southerner, district director Charles Baugh, who did everything he could to make them feel at home. Upstairs, IRS employees outnumbered concerned taxpayers, which necessitated still more flesh pressing. All those smiles and handshakes and salutations felt out of character. It was like having Kerri Strug as your pit boss...
Nancy Killefer, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, flew up from Washington to see how the Manhattan taxpayers were faring and was relieved by the low turnout and camp-registration atmosphere. "When I get something in the mail from the IRS, I just pay it," she confesses. "I don't have time. But if I knew I could call in and not be put on hold forever, I'd call...
...Problem Solving Day seemed to do more to boost the morale of the agency than that of the taxpayers. But if the result is a friendlier, less hostile IRS, it might be worth it. Tom Quigley, an IRS public-affairs officer, showed up at the Manhattan office with an IRS flag he had specially made for the occasion. "Actually, I made two and one was absconded--maybe to burn," he said. And then, remembering the spirit of the day, he added quickly, "Though it might look nice in a college dorm." It's not quite the adrenaline rush the Revenue...
...button fly at Woodstock 28 years ago, the miners' blue jeans first made by Levi Strauss in 1873 had been adopted as the uniform for class rebellion. But the enduring, red-tagged faded blues have recently earned another reputation. "My mom wears Levi's," says Hannah Gasner, 15, a Manhattan high school sophomore, uttering the words that youth marketers dread. "I think about them as the first jeans invented. Levi's are reliable...
...didn't the prosecution introduce the freeway chase! Why didn't the prosecution introduce the freeway chase!" Dominick Dunne pounds the arm of a green damask sofa in his Manhattan apartment. It is the morning of what happens to be his 72nd birthday, and Dunne is talking about the O.J. Simpson trial with as much anger as if the verdict had been announced that day, not 2 1/2 years earlier. He goes on: "How could Marcia have been flirting with Cochran? What kind of message does that send to the jury...