Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left had won a limited tactical victory the week before in the city's worst violence to date, and neither side gave up any key positions during last week's ceasefire. Christian Phalangists did leave some of the luxury hotels they had occupied in downtown Beirut but held on to the rocket-battered 26-story Holiday Inn. Leftists refused to budge from their commanding perch in the nearby 30-story, unfinished Murr Tower. Public cynicism about the cease-fire deepened when Karami's attempt to collect heavy weapons from both sides produced nothing. Kidnaping continued, and snipers...
...last week somebody finally heard Boston Edison. Somewhere in a clutter of small offices on the 20th floor of the Saltonstall Building in downtown Boston, the secretary of environmental affairs was listening...
Timilty's pledge to work with elected officials in City Hall to make Boston into "the kind of city we've talked about" brought boos from the crowd, which had begun swarming into the downtown hotel after...
...grandstand, $15 for upper box--and fifty or a hundred bucks is a lot of money to spend on one family baseball outing. But this was the World Series; diehard fans should have been willing to pay extra, to go to the bank for money orders, to drive them downtown late at night so that the orders would be postmarked 12:01 a.m. on the first legal day of ticket-buying...
Incapable of controlling the semifeudal political lords and their private militias who are responsible for the violence, Premier Rashid Karami faced increasing pressure to resign. He tentatively increased patrols by army troops in Beirut's downtown business sector and at all entrances to the city. Because most commanding officers in the 18,000-man army are Christian, Moslems fiercely oppose large-scale use of the military. Karami so far agrees and has warned that bringing in the army could destroy the country. But as the righting continued unabated, it seemed that the country was already approaching the edge...