Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayor Xavier Suarez, one of the targets of rock and bottle throwing Monday night, spent yesterday meeting with Black leaders and residents of Overtown, a neighborhood of rundown, low-slung apartment buildings and trash-strewn vacant lots, just north of downtown Miami...
...mayor. Police and federal prosecutors are investigating the latest in a string of embarrassing episodes involving women and drugs that has plagued Barry during his three terms. Three weeks ago, detectives looking into allegations that former District employee Charles | Lewis was selling drugs from his room in a downtown hotel were about to attempt an undercover drug purchase, but they abruptly departed after being informed that the mayor was visiting the suspect. A subsequent search by police of Lewis' room, which was billed to the credit card of a Barry aide, revealed traces of cocaine, though investigators could not determine...
...towering fountain of water, the selection committee settled on Steel Cloud, designed by New York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. When the first stage is completed in 1992, the $33 million glass-and-steel structure will rise up to twelve stories above the Hollywood Freeway in downtown Los Angeles and will be linked by bridges to the city's ethnic neighborhoods. Passersby will peer at 140-ft.-high aquariums and view scenes from Hollywood films projected on large silver screens...
...decade ago, it was easy to name America's best-known historic homes. They were Monticello and Mount Vernon. But since it opened to the public in 1982, Elvis' place in suburban Whitehaven, a 30-minute drive from downtown Memphis, has attracted more than 3 million visitors. That figure makes it one of the top house attractions in the U.S. This year alone, some 640,000 people will visit Graceland, and in the process they will spend more than $10 million on tickets, food and souvenirs...
...will pursue a science fiction novel, provisionally titled Nemesis; a "rather large history of science"; a collection of columns for Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine; and a collaboration with wife Janet on a children's book about Norby, the friendly robot. Every so often, he and Janet will saunter downtown for a look at some Fifth Avenue shopwindows. Royalties and lecture fees bring in a high-six-figure income; the Asimovs can indulge themselves. "And we will," Isaac says, taking his wife's hand. "We've done enough work for now. Today we'll try something different. Today we'll charge...