Word: manhattanization
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...Conant witnessed the culmination of the bomb development efforts, known as the "Manhattan Project," when he viewed the dawn testing of the finalized atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico...
...pair diverged as they drove through New Jersey and reached New York. Coleman took a ferry to Manhattan after stopping off to visit his wife in New Brunswick. Hiestand rode a ferry from State Island, riding over the renowned Brooklyn Bridge and connecting with his friend on Long Island. From there, they took another ferry to New London, Conn. and then biked to the town of Bedford, Mass...
...used in this summer's Batman Forever. Like the Riddler, Vengeance's evil genius (Jeremy Irons) taunts the hero with word games, history quizzes and math problems -- riddles, see? This keeps the plot clock ticking as McClane and a good-hearted black racist (Samuel L. Jackson) dash around Manhattan at Irons' bidding...
...York's finest reportedly groped female hotel guests, stole license plates or fired their weapons in the air. (One hotel says some officers stripped nude, poured beer down a lobby escalator and took turns sliding down.) A mortified Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said at an impromptu Manhattan press conference today: "To take an event that is designed to honor the memory of police officers who have given their lives and desecrate it, I can't imagine what they were thinking." New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said any guilty officers may be fired...
...bill is likely to remain high is the ongoing trial in New York of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He and 11 others have been accused of plotting to blow up the U.N. and a federal office building, as well as a bridge and two tunnels that connect Manhattan to New Jersey. In the second week of the trial, one of Rahman's co-defendants unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty and claimed that the sheik had offered the approval of Islamic law for the terror campaign. If the Administration's bill had been in place, it might have made...