Word: manhattanization
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...months of expert baby-sitting at a Manhattan preschool (mornings only...
...WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN HERE. NOT IN America. Not in New York City. But it did. On Friday, just past noon, what is believed to be a car bomb exploded in an underground garage beneath Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center. The blast and the resulting smoke and fire killed at least five people and injured 1,042. It forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the buildings. It snarled traffic, stopped train service and knocked TV stations (many had antennas on the roof) off the air. The blast created a 200-ft. by 100-ft. crater...
...PAST MIDNIGHT WHEN HENRY R. LUCE AND BRITON Hadden and their colleagues jammed themselves into three taxis and drove to a printing plant in downtown Manhattan. Working till dawn, they wrote copy to fill holes and supplied captions for illustrations that years later were described as looking as though they had been engraved on pieces of bread...
...snowy Friday afternoon, a massive explosion rocked the foundation of the Twin Towers of the Trade Center in lower Manhattan -- the second tallest buildings in the world and a magnet for 100,000 workers and visitors each day. The bomb was positioned to wreak maximum damage to the infrastructure of the building and the commuter networks below. And the landmark target near Wall Street seemed chosen with a fine sense for the symbols of the late 20th century. If the explosion, which killed five people and injured more than 1,000, turns out to be the work of terrorists...
...fundraiser for Clinton in midtown Manhattan, Rafsky employed his favorite tool: confrontation, with just a hint of humor. And he won huge media coverage...