Word: downtowner
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There has been a patriotic fervor to the demonstrations in Beijing. The protesters sang the national anthem and saluted the country's flag. It is all but impossible to imagine something similar happening if Latvians took over the main square in Riga or Ukrainians mobbed downtown Kiev. They would be singing songs and waving flags that would symbolize their dreams of independence and their resentment of Russian domination. Gorbachev's picture might be on their posters too. However, that would be because the demonstrators would see him as not just a reformer but a liberator. That is one role that...
...Seattle the economy is already sparking along. Area joblessness is 4.6%, a 20-year low; major employer Boeing is operating at an all-time high percentage of capacity; and hundreds of thousands of new residents have moved in during the past few years. Downtown, a state convention center, a shopping mall and underground bus tunnels are under construction. The area has been so torn up that some residents refer to it as "little Beirut...
...political fight, complete with barrages of print and TV ads, one crafted by George Bush's campaign guru Roger Ailes. Colorado Governor Roy Romer and Denver Mayor Federico Pena politicked incessantly around town. When the vote came in, several hundred giddy campaign workers shouted themselves hoarse in a jammed downtown hotel ballroom. The turnout, 41% of registered voters, would have been respectable for a congressional or gubernatorial election. In fact, the balloting was a special election in which Denver residents last Tuesday voted 63% to 37% to build a $2.3 billion new airport -- the first to be constructed...
...same day, 1,000 miles to the northwest, the spirit of Western boosterism took a fall almost as jarring as the Denver vote was exhilarating. In another special election, Seattle voters approved severe restrictions on the height and size of buildings that can be put up in the downtown area during the next ten years. The limits were contained in a citizens' initiative put forward as an alternative to a less restrictive plan favored by the city council and Mayor Charles Royer. With a turnout of only 23%, the tougher rules were approved...
Councilman Jim Street, a proponent of the construction limitations, explains that many citizens "believe the direction of the city has been parting from their values -- open space, reasonable traffic, retaining the characters of the neighborhoods, a downtown that's ((built on)) a more human scale." Says Barbara Dingfield, an opponent of the restrictions: "In 1972, during the Boeing bust, we would have voted to increase building heights, we would have voted for an airport. A lot of that is driven by what the sense of the local economy...