Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Raizk. Downtown's economy has been so precarious that local bankers wouldn't risk the money to turn a warehouse into Main Street's first upscale restaurant; a businessman in town had to come through with a private loan. New shops and a bookstore with its own cappuccino bar have moved in, but the bar and grill in Main Street's only hotel recently went belly-up, and the U.S. Postal Service, despite local opposition, is abandoning its grand downtown building for a big, automated facility on the strip...
Reasons to Move There: Twain Memorial lighthouse anchors a grand riverfront park; next to the bronze Tom and Huck statue is the Twainland Cheesecake Co., a booming business (producing 110 varieties) run by a formerly homeless woman and staffed by onetime welfare moms. Requisite latte bar just opened downtown...
...radio station, for example--and outlines them in 3-word descriptions. John's beer-drinking buddies from back home, however, are punctuated with long and often hysterically funny anecdotes. "Bug lotion has no effect whatsoever on those Florida flies," one old man mentions over beers at the local bar. "A crucifix helps, but you have to hit them really hard with it." The locals become the real people, the characters that readers remember most vividly and care most about...
...Arlington resident reported that she was assaulted ay JFK Street and Mt. Auburn Street by a male known to her. She stated that she had been harassed by the man in a Harvard Square bar earlier in the evening...
...Dillane) knows the drill: check into the best hotel still standing in some chaotic corner of the world; sally forth each day with your cameraman to gather images of anonymous suffering that will, ironically, make you famous to television viewers around the globe; beat it back to the journalists' bar each night to swap war stories with your colleagues...