Word: downtowners
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...cropped up anywhere and everywhere: aboard an airliner after takeoff from Athens; on the bridge of a Mediterranean cruise liner; in a downtown street in San Salvador; and last week at crowded air terminals in Rome and Vienna. Wherever he appeared, his victims, if they were not murdered outright, faced endless hours or days of anarchy and wrenching fear, often accompanied by harsh rantings about some strange and often incomprehensible political creed. Once again the terrorist, the sinister perpetrator of violence in the name of politics, showed himself to be, as the 19th century Russian Revolutionary Sergei Nechayev...
...vision was as elevated as the track that loops as high as 45 ft. above the city's streets: an inexpensive monorail that would help revive Detroit's demoralized downtown by shuttling people from offices to hotels, restaurants and apartment complexes. But the reality has gone way off track: the 2.9-mile automated rail system known as the Detroit People Mover, originally planned to open this month, is behind schedule, over budget, shoddily built and, critics say, unnecessary. Many Detroiters, whose only other public transportation is a creaky bus system, scorn the People Mover as "a rich folks' roller coaster...
Even when the monorail does begin to snake its way through twelve stations in downtown Detroit, critics say, the system's dozen cars, each with a capacity of 100 passengers, will never carry enough riders to justify the expense. Official estimates for the number of daily riders (at 40¢ to 50¢ a trip) have dropped from 70,000 to 40,000, while Stanley, who heads the Urban Mass Transit Administration in Washington, foresees no more than...
Rice's brother Randy said David had been influenced by right-wing pamphlets handed out on the street in downtown Seattle. In fact, the lush and rainy metropolis has recently seen more than its share of the most virulent sort of hatemongering: while charges were being prepared against Rice, a Seattle jury found ten members of the vicious neo-Nazi group known as the Order guilty of racketeering after a trial in which they were accused of murder and 60 other crimes...
...tone. It is at least true that the sweet-flowing harmonies of this mother-and-daughter act have earned them a brace of awards, including a 1985 Grammy, and sprightly record sales and airplay. They have also roped in a wide audience all the way from down-home to downtown. Elvis acolytes, Loretta Lynn fans, Mötely Crüe freaks can all join in the gently rolling communion of the Judds' music. "People are watching us," says Wynonna. "We're representing family." Adds her mother: "It's some strange combination of two worlds. I'm just so glad...