Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent decades, a dichotomy has emerged in the city between a strong downtown economy and impoverished neighborhoods, said the populist mayor. "A major reason for the dichotomy between the neighborhoods and downtown is the lack of education and basic skills necessary to compete in the information-based and high-tech economy found in Boston," he said to an audience of about 50 people...
More worrisome for Chun is Kim's potential role as a focus for dissent. Only a few days before his arrival, an estimated 50,000 people attended a political rally in downtown Seoul. Afterward, 1,000 protesters marched through the streets chanting, "Down with the dictatorship...
...least three things working for him: energy, flamboyance and competence. During the past two years the number of arrests in Charleston has doubled, and the crime rate has tumbled. In the same period, not a shot was fired by police. His increased foot and mounted patrols pleased downtown businessmen, and he delighted the rank and file by taking to the streets himself when things got slow at headquarters. He has made dozens of % collars in his car, on foot and on horseback, and gained some national publicity when he nabbed a bicycle thief while roller-skating. As for the department...
Shortly after dawn late last week, the ramrod-stiff figure of General Fabian Ver, the armed forces Chief of Staff, arrived at a govern ment office building in downtown Manila to surrender himself. Two days earlier the Tanodbayan--a four-member panel of ombudsmen--had indicted Ver, 24 other members of the military and one civil ian for their alleged involvement in the 1983 murders of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. and of Rolando Galman, the man said by the military to have killed Aquino. Ver brought $1,600 to post as bail, then left before any photographers showed...
Perhaps worst, the punishment was collective. Goetz had been mugged four years ago and had brooded ever since over the lenient treatment his attackers received. These four were paying for more than their own sins. A whole class of muggers got theirs on the downtown express. But the law, which still prevails aboveground, does not permit trial by class. Everyone pays for his sins only. Even criminals cannot remain abstract...