Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harold argued the change will hurt down towns, whose stores will not be able to coordinate Sunday openings like shopping malls can. The money in sales gained by the malls will be lost by downtown retailers, he said...
Just when I noticed it was kind of a nice day out, a skinny kid popped out of a bush by the side of the path. He looked a little like the kids downtown, except he was wearing a tank top, a dog collar, and a funny pointed hat. Hoping he wasn't a guerrilla. I asked him where his coat...
...recently graduated from Tufts and now hopes to enter a managerial training program, says he has some requests that he just couldn't handle. "Last week a teenage girl sat in his lap and asked for a boyfriend Bellin, in his best North Pole accent, recommended some sleaze bars downtown." But later that day, Bellin was reduced to silence when a five-year-old girl asked for a Ferrari Bellin says his key to success is making both parents and children laugh, but he adds. "That's not very difficult with disco renditions of Christmas carols blaring in the back...
Just 35 miles east of downtown Houston, between Interstate 90 and the San Jacinto River, a hand-lettered sign at the entrance to a state campground reads WELCOME TO TENT CITY, U.S.A. Inside, 100 people have set up housekeeping in tents, cars, campers and trucks. Some have been there for as long as eight months, some stay only a few days. Some are from out of state, but most are former blue-collar workers from the Houston area. Says Jana Williams, 27, who has lived there six months with her husband and ten-month-old baby: "Vigilante groups called...
...labor dispute at Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) spilled over into the streets of downtown Boston yesterday afternoon, as a chanting, sign-carrying contingent of 40 local unionists staged a two-hour "informational picket" at HCHP's Kenmore Center clinic...