Word: manhattanization
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...from his position as president of Rockefeller University and de facto science statesman. Give him a modest lab to work in, maybe one in the old Rockefeller buildings where the microbe hunters toiled decades ago. I picture something with a river view, where it is impossible to forget that Manhattan is an island, that the earth is a planet, and that there is something out there much larger, and possibly even cleverer, than ourselves...
...simple: with 58 American and foreign-owned plants producing a bewildering array of some 350 models, the U.S. market has become saturated with automotive offerings. "The U.S. is not a very profitable place to try to sell cars anymore," says Maryann Keller, vice president of Furman Selz, a Manhattan-based brokerage. In this case, what's miserable for manufacturers is marvelous for consumers. "If you have any money, it's a great time to buy a car," says Thomas O'Grady, president of Integrated Automotive Resources, which tracks industry trends. "In many cases...
...Jeep in January and a line of sleek, mid-size sedans, code-named LH, in the summer of 1992. Such offerings have persuaded some experts that the company will scrape through its latest crisis. Says John Casesa, who follows the company for the securities firm Wertheim Schroder & Co. in Manhattan: "I think Chrysler's going to make...
...Crevecoeur, author in 1782 of Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...
...Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan is a busy place -- a little too busy, as far as AT&T is concerned. In recent years the terminal's seedy lobby has become a favorite gathering spot for "phone scammers," con artists who sell overseas calls at cut rates using other people's telephone- charge-card numbers. In 1990 some $11 million in fraudulent calls originated from the bus terminal's pay phones alone, according to a report in the New York Daily News -- more than $30,000 worth every...