Word: manhattanization
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...important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads, which most of them do, they are unbeatable fantasy machines. Land Rover, which encourages its salespeople to come to work in safari gear, admits its best U.S. customers live within 150 miles of Manhattan. Lincoln, in planning to bring out its Mountaineer model this year, found that only 15% to 18% of utility-vehicle owners ever used their machines to tow or haul anything. And as for off-road rowdiness, "They look at you as if you were crazy," says GM designer Bill Wayland...
...Monterrey currency exchange. Couriers then flew or drove the funds back to the U.S. and deposited them in the exchange's bank account in McAllen, Texas. Then, with the help of two directors at the American Express Bank International in Beverly Hills, California, the money was wired to the Manhattan accounts of Cayman Islands holding companies, and from there to investments stretching from Texas to Switzerland. In this way, the real owners of the money were hidden from tax men and regulators...
...being asked by Berenson's family and friends in the U.S. is how this "warm and friendly"--Radosh's words--middle-class American woman with every prospect of success in life landed in such a fix. Born to two college instructors--her father Mark teaches statistics--and raised in Manhattan, Lori was a good student at La Guardia High School of Music and Art. A whiz also at science and math, she enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...YORK CITY: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine of his followers were sentenced to lengthy jail terms in a Manhattan courtroom today following their October convictions for conspiring to blow up several New York landmarks, including the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," Abdel-Rahman told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. The 57-year-old Egyptian faces a mandatory life sentence for a separate conviction for plotting to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. TIME's William Dowell reports: "Because the case...
COLOR PHOTO: MARK PETERSON--SABA FOR TIME NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: The commissioner, visiting a Manhattan station house, wants an additional 10% drop in crime [William Bratton and others...