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...years, or in 25, but I drank to their future, and to the future of every community that stands up to the steamroller. There is some evidence that as the work force becomes more flexible, more of the people who can work from home are choosing downtowns. Ground-floor and second-floor occupancy rates were up in Main Street towns in 1999, and retail sales jumped...
Lewis, who normally occupies a spacious ground-floor office in the corner of University Hall, says the move to Oxford Street had its benefits...
...opened the unlocked ground-floor door to Holworthy, and we carried everything to the top landing. A brass plaque on my door listed former residents. I recognized only Robert Benchley...
...residence, tracking the movements of the 14 Tupac Amaru guerrillas and their 72 VIP hostages. The officers knew what to expect: by midafternoon the hostages would be in upstairs bedrooms and the rebels who were holding them prisoner would have started their regular makeshift soccer game in the spacious ground-floor living room. It went just that way. At about 3 p.m. the listeners heard eight guerrillas, including their commander, Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, stash their rifles in a corner and begin a shouting, thumping game. The army flashed the word to President Alberto Fujimori, who was across town...
...walking down Park Avenue in the fall of 1986. Rather was tipped off to Tager's identity by a psychiatrist who interviewed Tager after he was arrested for shooting Campbell Theron Montgomery. Montgomery was killed when he alerted police to Tager, who was attempting to enter the show's ground-floor studios with an assault rifle. Both attacks were apparently fueled by Tager's belief that the media was after him. By demanding "the frequency" from Rather, Tager was trying to find a way to stop the media from beaming hostile messages into his brain. Although initially embarrassed and hostile...