Word: manhattanization
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...required 20 hours of painstaking negotiations, partly about where he would go. Abdel Rahman wanted to be driven in his own car to New Jersey, to turn himself in at the Newark offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The feds wanted him to surrender at INS headquarters in Manhattan. They compromised on a firehouse across the street from the mosque, where the sheik entered an INS van and was driven to a federal facility in Otisville, New York, about 75 miles northwest of New York City. The blind Egyptian cleric could be held until the resolution of his appeal...
...case of the would-be U.N. bombers was arrested, but some other plotters may be still at large. Meanwhile, at bail hearings for some of the original eight suspects, FBI officials charged that their targets also included the George Washington Bridge and the diamond district, a single block in Manhattan where gems are cut and polished, mostly by Jews. On an FBI tape, one terrorist excitedly envisioned the results: "Boom -- broken windows, Jews in the streets...
...between internal books and the financial reports Empire sent to regulators. The company allegedly / overstated losses incurred in providing insurance to poor customers. Those exaggerated losses helped persuade the state legislature to force Empire's competitors to take over some of its least profitable business. Despite Cardone's denials, Manhattan's district attorney has launched a criminal probe to determine whether the tough ex-Marine or his aides falsified records or committed perjury...
Kennedy, once voted the "Sexiest Man in America" by People magazine, is resigning his post as assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's office, according to department spokesperson Barbara Thompson...
...visions were apocalyptic: bomb blasts spreading fire and smoke through United Nations headquarters and a lower Manhattan skyscraper that houses, of all things, the New York offices of the FBI. Other explosions the same day in the Holland and Lincoln tunnels under the Hudson River, crushing motorists inside cars turned to twisted junk, killing many more by spreading intense heat, smoke and noxious fumes throughout the enclosed space of the tubes. Thousands dead, thousands more injured, the nation's biggest city in a wild panic...