Word: skyscraperism
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The visions were apocalyptic: bomb blasts spreading fire and smoke through United Nations headquarters and a lower Manhattan skyscraper that houses, of all things, the New York offices of the FBI. Other explosions the same day in the Holland and Lincoln tunnels under the Hudson River, crushing motorists inside cars...
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Indian leaders claim the Bombay explosions were masterminded by foreign forces, possibly Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence. Piecing together a car bomb that exploded in the basement garage of the Air India skyscraper, Bombay police traced the ownership of vehicles used in the attacks to one of the city's...
Seconds after a rich executive (cameo appearance by Edward Hermann) hastily jumps to his death from atop a Chicago skyscraper, local TV news reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis), who has just conducted a pre-suicide interview, instinctively asks her cameraman:
General Services Administration officials at first refused to halt construction of the skyscraper, but congressional intervention, complaints from New York's city hall and a shower of protests from black organizations forced the GSA to cancel its plans. The site is now part of a proposed historic district.