Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...13th largest city (pop. 708,000) has been laboring to dispel its old image and prevent the depressingly familiar slide into urban decay. New businesses have moved in, aided by tax breaks and lured by the city's location near the center of the nation. A once dreary downtown area has become slick and modern. Gleaming office towers, as well as a sports arena and an expanded convention center, decorate the skyline. A street paved with red bricks winds around venerable Monument Circle, lending new stateliness to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument with its slender 284-ft. limestone shaft...
...team has a 20-year lease agreement to play in the newly built, seven-acre, 61,000-seat stadium known as Hoosier Dome. The $78 million complex is in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, its white-fabric, air-supported, 257-ton roof puffed up like a huge blanket. The stadium, built with a combination of public and private funds, including multimillion-dollar endowments from foundations and a 1% tax on food and beverages, is a major reason why the Colts have come to Indianapolis, and a tribute to the foresight and business acumen of the people running the city...
...tough, profane Brahmin and the uncle of Walter Cabot, served as Harvard's treasurer from 1948 to 1965 and quintupled the endowment. He demanded complete discretion in managing Harvard's money, arguing that you can't invest by committee. Cabot shifted more than half of the endowment out of downtown Boston real-estate and high-grade bonds, and into common stocks--considered, at the time, a radically new strategy for a private university...
...year also saw the deaths of several Harvard undergraduates. In March. John P. Neumann '86, an Adams House sophomore, died after falling from the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Manhattan...
...spent a lot of time writing, but he too found time for non-literary events at the Lampoon Spooner, also a Lampoon alumnus, recalls that during Phool's Week, the organization's initiation period. Smith "dressed a Phool up as Santa Claus and had other Phools attack him in downtown Boston...