Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the high post, to shoot from the outside. It wasn't just shooting, though; it was bombing and I don't think if McGuire had called in B-52s he would have had a better long range bombing attack. Some of the shots looked like they originated in downtown Columbia, but they always went...
...mass transit money this year for the first time. If gasoline remains scarce, states that depend on fuel taxes to fund local highway construction may end up with less money than projected; some planned highways may never be built. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed banning cars from certain downtown business districts by 1977; many city dwellers, including not a few local businessmen, are in favor of the idea. "You are not going to control this nation in the form of a police state where you have to have a passport to cross the state line," says AMC Chairman...
...from suburban home to suburban job. (About 25% both live and work in the city, and 7% reverse-commute from the city to the suburbs.) As many suburbanites know, that pattern has produced traffic snarls, at intersections dozens of miles outside the core city, that rival anything encountered on downtown streets. Says Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II: "Subways are fine for getting downtown and back, but most people don't travel downtown and back any more. They travel all over the place. And you can't build subways all over the place...
Like 500 or so other Chicagoans, Rolfe has rejected the steep rents and monotonous layouts of high-rise apartments and opted instead for storefront living near downtown business districts...
While the snow turned to freezing rain and a chilling wind whipped through the downtown streets, the marchers slowly made their way to the decks, picking up new recruits along the way. By the time the first protesters reached the docks and joined 6000 others already there, the line stretched six city blocks...