Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every business downtown has at least one, maybe three or four. Private homes have them. They are taped to the rear windows of half the cars in town...
When you walk into Filene's Bargain basement of Downtown Crossing in Boston, the first thing you notice is that there are two kind of people there the initiates and the veterans...
...sign-ups, the President, Secretary of Agriculture John Block and Regan all melted. Branstad announced the decision on the White House steps to huzzahs from the farmers. A couple of hours later the beleaguered Senate Majority Leader, Robert Dole, rose in fury on the Hill and rocketed his displeasure downtown. So, accused Dole, the hold-the-line troops in the Senate were supposed to shoulder the bad news while the boys in the White House handed out the goodies. Regan was chastened. He should have run through his checklist and brought Dole in on the act to protect the President...
...wrestling and athlete training. A la Rocky, Louden's training is exciting. His heroic--in fact, lunatic--efforts to reduce his body fat and muscle up for the big wrestling showdown with Shufe produces a strange thrill. He runs the miles to his room-service job in a downtown hotel, and foregoes any and all nourishment. He drop the weight so quickly that his nose bleed during practice. We feel his nervous anticipation as he waits in the locker room. His wrestling is not just a sport, it is a celebration of life. In athletic competition and discipline he strengthens...
...American companies in South Africa are propping up a racist regime. In downtown Johannesburg, on one street you see a 'whites only' sign, and then on the next a Coke billboard," Ball says...