Word: downtown
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...dissonant sights, sounds and people. Each line, for instance, is unique and uniquely suited to the neighborhoods it connects. The relative cleanliness of the Red Line is well-suited for the ever-vigilant vanity of Harvard and MIT, as the grimy intimacy of Green Line cars fits the downtown neighborhoods they visit...
Sometimes even democracy needs a little wake-up call. Beyond the varied issues that got them out on the streets - and the violent methods favored by a minority among them - the demonstrators who battled police for control of downtown Seattle over the past few days issued a profound challenge to politics as usual in the Clinton...
More than 30 Harvard students joined hundreds of Bostonians who gathered downtown to protest the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its policies last night...
...friend from Penn calls. A senior, he's considering taking a job with one of the big downtown banks. Shemmer is indignant. "Ninety percent of the analysts hate it," he tells his friend, a fraternity buddy. "There's no guarantee you're going to make more money." His friend wavers, and Shemmer hones in. Shemmer instinctively organizes his pitch into bullets and subpoints, neatly lining up Broadview's advantages and the competitor's downsides like he might at a client presentation. It's a habit of the analyst mind. Later, when a new co-worker asks...
...Journal, harbors the nation's second highest concentration of high-tech jobs in the nation after Silicon Valley. New Haven has more theaters than Boston, is within easy access of New York City, and has a contiguity of restaurants, nightspots, theaters and other shops surrounding the Yale campus. Frankly, downtown New Haven makes Cambridge look like a sterile, uninviting area--perhaps a reflection of the Harvard administration and students themselves...