Word: manhattanization
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...What is Crocodile Dundee? Oh, hell--what's The Muppets Take Manhattan...
...lively accounts of his work comprise the first half of Memoirs. Sakharov relates the zeal with which he and his colleagues patriotically pursued a design for the hydrogen bomb, and his accounts sound strikingly similiar to those of the Manhattan Project. Despite the bold sense of purpose and bonds he formed with fellow engineers, his tales of his applied work are tinged with some wistfulness. He expresses his wish that he could have spent more time working in "grand science...
...Grimm and friends get mired down by the usual unsavory Manhattan types, the action, too, quickly loses momentum...
...first six months of 1990, according to the Department of Commerce, consumer spending growth was flat. At the same time, consumer debt rose at an annual rate of only 3%, down from 7.6% in 1989 and 8.5% in 1988. Edward Hyman, chief economist at C.J. Lawrence, Morgan Granfel, a Manhattan brokerage firm, predicts a virtual standstill in consumer borrowing for the next 12 months, a phenomenon not seen since the 1950s. At the same time, socking away money is regaining popularity. In April the personal savings rate topped 6% for the first time in more than five years...
...mashed potatoes are acceptable once more. Exclusive name brands no longer carry the same cachet or inspire the same hell-bent-for-leather efforts to pay for them, because nobody really expects anyone to be impressed. Says Martin Puris, chief executive of the Ammirati & Puris advertising agency in Manhattan: "The trend is pragmatism...