Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four television vans are already parked outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Forty-four seats in the courtroom have been set aside for U.S. and foreign news organizations. An adjoining room will hold another 60 reporters. De Lorean, who had difficulty raising his $5 million bail and is paying his high legal fees partly with loans from friends, will probably testify on his own behalf. Cristina may also be called by the defense. The drama's climactic courtroom chapter could last more than two months...
...addition, visible downtown commercial development (Renaissance Center in Detroit, Faneuil Hall and now Copley Place in Boston, Peach tree Center in Atlanta, South Street Seaport and Battery Park City in New York) have created the illusion that urban decline is abating. The degree of attention devoted to the so-called issue of gentrification--the displacement of poor residents by young professionals--has added to this impression...
...Until this scandal broke this summer, you'd think he was an angel from heaven, the way people talked about him," says David Morris, who works at The Peanut Store, a confectionery market in downtown New Bedford. "I've heard a lot of fishermen say they like what he's done for them...
...sent about 400 people to Des Moines and spent perhaps $3 million on ad hoc studios. CBS took over and closed off the modernist Civic Center for its newsroom (and already has it booked for 1988). NBC set up shop in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead of the results: ABC, the last to predict Mondale's landslide, did so 15 minutes after voting began. The early projections were considered spoilsport at best...
Smiling confidently, former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri strode into the town-house headquarters of Argentina's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in downtown Buenos Aires one morning last week and described his mood as "very good." By the time he left, night had fallen, and so had Galtieri's cheer. After nine hours of questioning by Argentina's highest military court, the army general who launched his country's disastrous 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was under formal arrest. Galtieri was soon joined by the other members of the military junta...