Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven inches of snow fell gently in downtown Anchorage last week, 1,000 spectators and representatives of two dozen oil companies crowded into the convention area in the International Banquet House. They were there to hear bids announced for federal lease sales in the Beaufort Sea, which perhaps contains some of the richest untapped deposits of oil and gas in the U.S. The fields are believed to hold as much as 2.3 billion bbl. of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
...urging Solidarity supporters to demonstrate before the parliament building, Poles seemed reluctant to go into the streets again in the wake of the Aug. 31 riots, when five died in bitter clashes with security forces. Taking no chances, the government had already bivouacked hundreds of extra riot police in downtown Warsaw hotels, but most citizens heeded the advice of Solidarity's underground leaders to refrain from violence...
...weary residents of West Beirut, the operation had all the marks of another invasion. Just before dawn Tuesday morning, armored cars and personnel carriers rumbled toward dozens of intersections in the downtown area. They sealed off three neighborhoods, including the heart of the commercial and banking area, barring all persons except doctors, journalists and food-store operators. Soldiers went from house to house, checking identity papers and searching for weapons and ammunition. By week's end the army said it had arrested an estimated 500 people, mostly for being in Lebanon illegally, and uncovered more than 300 tons...
BOSTON--Thje imperial wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan sowed yesterday to assemble robed Klansmen in downtown Boston to protest official reaction to his assault on live television...
...Southern California, residents with discount fever can sign up for Tours About Town, a weekly bargain-hunting expedition started last year by two enterprising teachers. Intrepid shoppers are bused from suburban Los Angeles to the city's downtown garment district and given a map, buying tips and money-saving details on local jobbers, wholesalers and factory outlets. Cost of the tour: about...