Word: manhattanization
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...York Daily News, which bills itself as New York's Hometown Paper. The News has spent the past year preparing for the possibility of a multiunion strike by seeking "replacement workers" from around the U.S. To orient its out-of-town talent to life in the wilds of Manhattan, the News is preparing a guidebook that portrays a vision of the city dramatically at odds with the paper's public boosterism...
SKYSCRAPER (PBS, debuting May 7, 8 p.m. on most stations). The building of Manhattan's 47-story Worldwide Plaza is chronicled in five weekly episodes...
...laws and regulations that govern our industry. I was wrong in doing so and knew at the time, and I am pleading guilty to these offenses." With those contrite but carefully crafted words, | deposed junk-bond king Michael Milken, 43, began a tearful confession before a federal judge in Manhattan last week. The man whose deals revolutionized Wall Street and convulsed corporate America read a 15-min. statement detailing his role in securities fraud that involved recently paroled speculator Ivan Boesky and investment banker Dennis Levine. "My plea is an acceptance of personal responsibility for my own failings and actions...
...comfortable eight-floor Georgian building in midtown Manhattan, the invitation promises, lies the exclusive domain of The Club, 96-year-old bastion of tradition for the highest circles of American society--one of the first real-world rewards for attending Harvard...
...drugstore, barbershop, pool hall, Greyhound bus station, coin-operated Laundromat and quiet residential streets. Several double-wide trailers and late-model automobiles, all seized from real-life crime scenes, sprawl around the town. Even the movie theater, the Biograph, is a monument to real-life crime. Its main attraction, Manhattan Melodrama (starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), was showing at the Biograph in Chicago when the bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead outside the theater by FBI agents...