Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doherty is also aiding a local radio station by looking for Harvard volunteers to help with its. "Operation Santa Claus" project, a drive which has placed toy deposit boxes in about 32 downtown parking garages...
...company seemed to have lost its sense of direction, Sears has found its way. During the first nine months of 1983, profits shot up 89%, to $759.5 million, while revenue surged 18%, to $25.1 billion. Around the Sears Tower, the 110-story black steel-and-glass skyscraper in downtown Chicago that still bears the title of the world's tallest building, a mood as merry as Christmas exists. Not only is Sears' bold expansion into financial services and real estate paying handsome dividends, the firm's merchandise group, which once seemed to display all the deftness...
...Over in Omaha, Creighton has stirred a certain passion for basketball, but to most Nebraskans this must seem as wrongheaded as when Creighton dropped football in the '40s. On the farm lands, in the sandhills, across the cattle country, through the Platte River Valley, as well as in downtown Lincoln and Omaha-really the only two cities in Nebraska-there is but one institution, and that is the State University, as in state of mind. Hundreds of miles from Lincoln, farmers who never went very far in school regard the University of Nebraska as their alma mater. In case...
...every weekday at 7 a.m., Captain George Tsantes stepped into the back seat of a black Plymouth sedan outside his home in Kifissia, a northern suburb of Athens, for the 30-minute drive to his office in downtown Athens. This time, however, two men on a Vespa motor scooter were shadowing him. When the car stopped for a red light, the scooter zoomed alongside, and a gunman fired seven shots from a .45-cal. pistol, killing Tsantes instantly and fatally wounding his driver...
...exultant crowds were gone, the banners proclaiming WE ALL LOVE YOU RON AND NANCY and FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW no longer festooned the broad avenues of downtown Seoul. But a week after Ronald Reagan's three-day visit, South Korean officials were still aglow over the President's picture-perfect tour. For a government still recovering from the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 last September and from the terrorist bombing in Rangoon last month that killed 16 South Korean officials, the Reagan trip was a welcome morale booster. Most important...