Word: downtowners
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...downtown Rangoon, the effects of economic stagnation are easy to spot. Unfinished office and apartment blocks loom over the skyline like Olympian tombstones. With most international companies long departed, billboards advertise mostly local products, such as Spirulina ("Beer That Makes You Young Forever"), or nothing at all. Like in a city at war, fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the grounds of public buildings. Part of the front lawn of the seldom-visited Drug Elimination Museum, built to whitewash the regime's dubious antinarcotics record, has been turned into a pomelo orchard. Power shortages still plague the capital, as they...
...Walking through downtown Rangoon, I noticed with horror how acres of historic buildings have been demolished to make way for the modern towers the junta hopes will dominate the capital's skyline by 2006, when Burma is to chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and host its the summit. Most of these projects, including the inauspiciously named Twin Towers, sit idle for lack of investment. Ordinary Burmese feel baffled and betrayed by the encouragement their oppressors get from Asia's leaders. Privately, Southeast Asian diplomats insist they are heaping more backroom pressure on Burma than their abysmal public...
...event, held in the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in downtown Boston, also honored one black Harvard administrator and six Harvard black male undergraduates for their contributions to the black community on campus...
...questions about succession but stressed how much he is like his legendary dad: "We're good partners working together ... When we reach decisions, we almost always arrive at similar conclusions." Victor adds that he has taken on many of the day-to-day business operations. At company headquarters in downtown Hong Kong, Victor says, he toils away with middle managers in his ninth-floor office, which he calls "the engine room," while Dad plots big-picture strategy from the palatial 70th floor...
...aisle. "I don't like to use the word addiction, but customers become fanatical about this stuff," says Cindy Cooper, proprietor of 560 Main, the shop in Pleasanton where Kimberly Wendt replenishes her cleaning supplies. Customers "rant and rave," says Charles Conn, a merchandiser at Whole Foods Market in downtown New York City. "I hear them say that 'Mrs. Meyer's made me like doing the dishes...