Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe what was happening. Raúl Alfonsin, refreshed by a barbecue lunch and a three-hour siesta, heard the results at the home of a wealthy supporter in a Buenos Aires suburb. "Let's wait, let's wait," he cautioned excited aides. At his party headquarters downtown, Italo Luder sat forlornly in his office, shaking his head in disbelief. Luder's supporters, expecting a night of partying, instead drifted quietly out of the building. Finally, at 5:45 a.m., the perplexed Luder emerged from his office, not to concede but to go home for sleep. Said...
...lead held, supporters chanting "Alfonsin! Alfonsin!" filled plazas across the nation. In Buenos Aires, caravans of celebrators sped through the streets honking horns and waving the party's red-and-white flags. At 3:15 a.m., Alfonsin addressed his backers from the balcony of the Radical party headquarters downtown in the capital. Abandoning the rhetoric of the campaign, Alfonsin sounded the notes of national unity. "We have won, but we have defeated no one," he proclaimed. "This is the triumph of all Argentina...
...John S. Herrington, it was: "The President has requested that I inform you that your appointment as a member of the Commission on Civil Rights terminates effective today." The next day their names were unceremoniously removed from the lobby directory at the commission's Vermont Avenue offices in downtown Washington...
Meanwhile, talks aimed at ending the strike continued in downtown Boston Representatives from both sides met with a federal mediator at noon yesterday, and we were still meeting by early evening...
...nationally recognized brands and designer-name merchandise because these goods symbolized higher quality, not to mention status. It was not long before consumers discovered that they could get name-brand goods more cheaply in the converted warehouse near the railroad tracks than they could in the slightly shabby downtown store where Mother had always shopped...