Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Priscilla Kidder, owner of the tony Priscilla of Boston bridal shops, is having the biggest year "dollarwise" of all her 45 in business. Phil Weiss, a wedding coordinator from Skokie, Ill., suggests, "Go to downtown Chicago on any given Saturday, and you'll see wedding parties of $15,000 to $40,000 all over the place." Philip Youtie, vice president of the Bridal Marketers Association of America and owner of a large bridal chain with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, adds it up simply. "There are fewer brides but bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes...
...importing business. But this typecasting aside, he somehow manages to corner the detectives into turning over a haul of cocaine. Julio does that by kidnapping Costanzo's about-to-be-remarried ex-wife and holding her hostage in a glass elevator at the top of the State Building in downtown Chicago...
...that could just be true. Because behind the doors on the eighth floor of Allen-Bradley's good gray corporate headquarters near downtown Milwaukee is an operation that may signal a renaissance in U.S. manufacturing. Department 260, as it is known, is the company's innovative and expensive ($15 million) attempt to make its popular lines of sturdy industrial-control devices better and cheaper than those of competing companies in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan...
...after 160 intervening pages of pablum, Vigeland offers a wonderful description of hijinks at the Harvard Management Company, the University's downtown moneymen, and their star, $240,000-a-year trader Bing Sung. Vigeland humorously captures the irony of stock- and bond-traders shouting at each other, manning three telephones at once, pioneering new kinds of financial deals--all for the benefit of the world's stodgiest university...
Less than 24 hours after South Africa's commando raid last week, it was business as usual at the whitewashed single-story headquarters of the African National Congress in downtown Lusaka. An A.N.C. official glanced only casually at visitors as they passed through the half-open steel gate. Within the compound, Oliver Tambo, 68, a lawyer and political activist who became acting president of the organization in 1967, sat inside a cramped and sparsely furnished office, drafting a press statement about the attack. None of the 20 or so staffers on hand seemed unduly alarmed by the raid. "We live...