Word: manhattanization
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...odds were heavily against investigators finding anything so decisive so soon. Telltale clues presumably lay at ground zero, the spot where the giant bomb had gone off in the parking garage under Manhattan's World Trade Center towers. And ground zero was buried at the bottom of a seven-story-deep crater, hidden under rubble and surrounded by beams that would have to be strengthened to prevent their collapsing on top of overeager probers...
About 7:45 p.m. -- two hours late -- Salameh, in handcuffs, was led by marshals into the jammed Manhattan federal district court of Judge Richard Owen. Salameh was a slight, dark-skinned man about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with close-cropped dark hair and beard, dressed in sneakers and a light gray sweat suit that billowed around him. Federal authorities in Washington later disclosed some basic information about the suspect. He is 25 years old, an Arab who was born on the West Bank but grew up in Jordan. He entered the U.S. in 1987 with a five-year visa...
...with great finesse, versatility, and fun. And Brian Martin's Tess provides a colorful parody of New Jersey chic, which leaves an indelible (indewibo) impression (impweson) upon the unsuspecting critic (cwidduck). In fact, most of the female leads display a refinement of drag seldom witnessed beyond the confines of Manhattan and San Francisco. They work it and they work it good. At times its just good, but usually it's so completely awful it's great Seldom has kitsch been given such lively treatment...
...informed experts assumed that hundreds of pounds of high explosives had been packed into a car or van that was left at a four-level underground parking garage. The garage is situated below the Trade Center plaza and near a station of the PATH commuter subway line that links Manhattan and New Jersey...
...million, according to one estimate. But the disruption to business will be even worse, because the Port Authority will have to close the giant complex for at least several days for structural and safety work. The towers, which represent about 10% of all the office space in Manhattan's financial district, are so large that they have two ZIP codes...