Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...necessarily mean being effective. Fallon's work for McDonald's Arch Deluxe featured kids frowning at the prospect of an "adult" hamburger. So too did the grownups. The burger bombed. McDonald's parted company with the upstart and picked a new agency: Leo Burnett, big, conventional and in downtown Chicago...
Richard C. Marius, senior lecturer on English, reminds us that "human beings are incomplete unless they can stare out windows, seeing a world beyond what the eye can behold." Speeding along the highway between downtown offices and suburban homes, living in rooms with incredible views, we will be sheltered from America's latent racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty and moral uncertainty. It's really there. And unless we remember that many among us live sad lives of quiet desperation--and that we are who we are because someone loved us, cared for us and lent us a guiding hand--then...
...companies they would lure with an "incubator" incentive package, including one year of free access to ISDN lines, low-rent offices in the neighborhood of $30 to $40 a month and free technical advice. The goal is to attract high-tech businesses like the one that recently moved in downtown, Integrated Technology Group, which makes software for robotic controls. Gus Comstock, the city's economic development director, sees this as the right kind of business for the future. It is high paying, clean, and does not tax the local infrastructure. "You don't need mammoth loading docks," says Comstock...
...economy, and so it has usually mirrored the country's fortunes. Right now that reflection is beguiling: new construction in Ross County has quadrupled in the past seven years; the average home, which sold for $49,700 in 1989, now sells for $84,200. The pretty downtown brick buildings, hollowed and haunted in the '80s, are being turned into stores with condo apartments on top. "In 1990 I don't remember one ribbon cutting for a new business," says David Milliken, president of the Chillicothe-Ross Chamber of Commerce. "Lately we've had about one every month...
...residents. Although officials said the restrictions were imposed to prevent looting and unrest among civilians, it is government soldiers who have ransacked other cities as Kabila's troops advanced. Fearing that the final battle is near, shops and stalls at the central market closed early, while police roamed the downtown area, stopping people to demand bribes. Opposition parties, hoping to convince Mobutu to resign, have called for a general strike Wednesday to coincide with the president's planned talks with Kabila in Pointe-Noire, Congo...