Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quake struck at 7:42 a.m., shattering windows, snapping power lines, breaking gas mains and igniting fires. Worst hit was Whittier (pop. 72,000), twelve miles from downtown Los Angeles and the community closest to the epicenter. Eight blocks in Whittier's business district were closed after bricks cascaded on cars, and at least eight buildings were too damaged to be saved...
Chicago was chockablock with business seminars that week. Next door at the Marriott, muscular types in gold chains and shorts were studying health-club management. Downtown, engineers laid out a grand for four days of "Pneumatic Conveying for Bulk Solids." A company called the 1st Seminar Service lists 100,000 such seminars annually around the country. By its estimate, corporations send 8 million people a year for outside training, and think it is worth paying about $4 billion. The rustling sound of flip charts in action runs like a breeze through the cornfields from coast to coast...
...towers are adding nearly 2 million sq. ft. of office space to Montreal's thriving real estate market. Other construction -- apartments, condominiums, new hotels -- is altering the Montreal skyline so fast that photographs taken only a year ago are already outdated. In Quebec City the building of a new downtown convention center and hotel complex has left the old historic quarter essentially unchanged. Hemmed in by the St. Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec remains a warren of narrow, hilly streets, dominated by two landmarks -- the venerable, copper-turreted Chateau Frontenac hotel...
...system arrived none too soon. If traffic patterns had continued, Egyptian officials estimated, the streets of downtown Cairo would have been virtually gridlocked by 1990. That prospect led the government to sign an agreement with France in 1981 to build a subway modeled on the Paris Metro...
Police Officer William Frio said five people were arrested for looting in various parts of the city where windows were shattered. Police spokesman Lt. Dan Cooke said a special anti-looting squad was working downtown and the entire department was on full tactical alert, working 12-hour shifts...