Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet earthquake standards. Then its attorneys argued that the company wanted to remove the Garden Court because "the longer the building stays up, the riskier it is that somebody might get hurt." Replied an unconvinced Superior Court Judge Robert I. Weil: "Well, my God, there are 500 buildings in downtown Los Angeles that are subject to the same ordinance, and nobody is making them take those buildings down. So why should this one be any different...
...more progressive labor practices and improving services to students. He's institutional in more than cheaper socks and underwear, and in that he says he's succeeded: These's been a real change. Students have access to more information. If the decision made three years ago to open a downtown store were being made now. I don't think there would have been a downtown store...
...scheduled to begin Friday at Louis XIV's baroque chateau. The bureau was also setting up its own additional facilities outside the press center in a hotel 400 yards from the chateau gates; these included telex connections with the bureau's main office 14 miles away in downtown Paris. In London, Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo made detailed preparations to cover the Reagans' stay at Windsor Castle, even as the bureau, including Frank Melville and Art White, continued with its eighth consecutive week of reporting on the Falklands war. At the same time, Correspondent Mary Cronin was chronicling...
...building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue-collar population. Yet here, 30 miles from downtown Chicago, is one of the best restaurants...
Dozens of sign-carrying demonstrators dodged rush-hour traffic in downtown Memphis to pass out leaflets to motorists. Ron Thomas, a clean-cut Memphis State University junior, wore a sheet and a homemade death mask for the event. "I call myself a Christian," he says, "and if I'm really serious about the religious commands of peace, then I felt I had to do something about nuclear weapons." At Yale, 1,000 people filled the university chapel to hear Evangelist Billy Graham, a very recent convert to the cause, denounce nuclear war as the ultimate sin. In Rochester, Mich...