Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kucinich has alienated business by accusing bankers of precipitating the city's credit crisis and by opposing tax abatements to companies that have proposed major downtown developments. The recall fight also aggravated longstanding racial problems. Kucinich supporters inflamed black leaders by distributing pictures of black City Council President George Forbes in white neighborhoods and saying that he would be the next mayor if they didn't vote for Kucinich...
Some Chicagoans criticized the program, arguing that the city has been losing its middle class mainly because of crime and poor schools, not high housing costs. Bankers also fret about possible disruptive effects on the regular mortgage market. Still, the experiment has appeal in an age of spreading downtown decay and rising taxpayer unrest. Two Colorado cities, Denver and Pueblo, plan similar programs to start in a few weeks...
Fully half the companies that have moved to the county have settled in Stamford, which has changed from a dingy factory town into a showcase for imaginative corporate architecture. General Telephone & Electronics occupies a striking tower, shaped like an inverted pyramid, that has helped to transform a once decaying downtown section. Champion International's offices in the 21-story Landmark Tower overlook buildings forming a complex that includes a sunken plaza used for tennis in the summer, skating in the winter. Continental Oil, Xerox, Texasgulf and General Signal are in High Ridge Park, which, with six modern buildings...
...mind; it is what you think it is. Not long ago a painter set up an easel on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk and began to work on a picture, sighting along his brush from time to time, looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting a quiet meadow with a stream running through it. The man admirably embodied certain crucial New York survival traits: exhibitionism, humor, and possible derangement...
...heat nor gloom of night can stay the P.H. Brennan Hand Delivery Service from its appointed rounds, but the U.S. Postal Service has finally succeeded in doing so. For more than two years, Patricia and Paul Brennan delivered first-class mail along with other papers and parcels in downtown Rochester, N.Y. For 10? a letter, they guaranteed same-day delivery and served close to 400 satisfied clients...