Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Athanson and his fellow Hartfordites were thankful that no one was hurt in the accident. But they were shaken, since the civic center was the symbol of the city's downtown renewal, and the 12,500-seat coliseum was the cynosure of the complex. Home of the World Hockey Association's New England Whalers, the arena was also the site of other sporting events, concerts and conventions. As a result of the roofs collapse, more than 300 scheduled events will have to be canceled; in the 1½ to two years that may be needed to rebuild...
...such cities as Birmingham and Memphis, the storm disrupted traffic and closed down schools and businesses. In Atlanta, where there are still fresh memories of a 1973 ice storm that downed trees and knocked out power lines for a week, the ominous reports emerging from Alabama and Tennessee sent downtown workers hurrying home early...
Five years after the earthquake that killed 10,000 people and sent office buildings tumbling into one another like falling dominoes, the downtown area of Nicaragua's capital city of Managua is still a semi-ghost town of empty lots and damaged structures. But the streets are passable again and often clogged with traffic. Thus Newspaper Publisher-Editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, 53, was driving at a leisurely pace last week as he headed from home on one side of the city toward his office on the other at La Prensa, the country's largest newspaper (circ...
...conference championship game, Goldberg had another morale booster up his sleeve. Since his company had a contract to demolish a twelve-story building in Denver's downtown, Goldberg had the three-ton ball on his wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them...
...dome's most important contribution to New Orleans is its location: smack in the middle of downtown...