Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Downtown...
...Police Harold Breier, 70, who holds a life appointment, called the jury's report "a terrible miscarriage of justice" and warned that it would damage morale on the force. The autocratic Breier, likened by his detractors to J. Edgar Hoover was bold enough to wade into an angry downtown demonstration last August by citizens protesting Lacy's death. Spotting the chief, the crowd chanted: "Fire Breier He's a liar...
Valenzuela came within inches of being taken downtown again in that inning, when Yankee catcher Rick Cerone hit a double that rebounded off the pipe railing on top of the left-field fence. Cerone got his homer in the third when he pulled a two-run blast to put the Yankees ahead, 4-3, but the Dodgers went ahead for keeps, 5-4, in the fifth, the winning run coming when Ron Cey scored on a double play gound-out off reliever Rudy...
...organization in American corporate life, a truth which the captains of industry and business embraced? What if the glass box was the all-American self-expression that Wolfe claims is not there? His book does not broach that possibility, yet it makes more sense of upper Sixth Avenue or downtown Houston than all his rattlings about the passivity of corporate clients. But then, there was probably no time to inspect the matter. He had a book to finish...
...Some downtown business district planners are beginning to fight back with measures designed to restrict or divert automobile traffic from shopping streets, or to ban autos altogether from certain areas, or at certain times. Pedestrian malls that are well-served by public transportation and parking often prove to be profitable delights. The best of them, such as the pedestrian shopping districts in Portland, Ore., or the old city of Munich, Germany, are continuous festivals...