Word: hub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stark fantasy goes like this: New York City is two different, alien worlds: Manhattan and the "outer boroughs." Manhattan, America's hub of service and information, is an island where the rich get richer and the poor serve lunch. Each day the sunrise set emerges from its Manhattan high-rises, takes a limo to the office and sits down to run the computer age. At the same hour, folks come in from Brooklyn or Queens to play the worker-bee roles of secretaries, cab drivers, souvlaki vendors and cops. After work they return home in underground cattle cars. The subway...
Flynn, 48, is seeking his second term as mayor of the nation's 20th-largest city and hub of the country's 10th-largest metropolitan area. Tierney, 46, is making his first run for the $100,000-a-year job after 16 years on the City Council, 10 years as its president...
...computer industry, which is known for its hype and hullabaloo, the trade show that Digital Equipment Corp. opened in Boston last week is a happening. It is the largest and most lavish extravaganza ever held by a single computer manufacturer, and not even all the hotels in the Hub could accommodate the 50,000 executives, financial analysts and journalists from 25 countries who are expected to attend the $25 million, eleven-day affair. To house the overflow crowd, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Star/Ship Oceanic luxury liners were docked alongside the spacious World Trade Center on Boston Harbor, where...
...sidle up to unwary travelers as they pass through the terminal and lure them onto United flights with such promised incentives as earlier arrival times, better tasting food and superior service. Another strategy is to check computer listings for United customers who plan to change planes at the Denver hub for a Continental flight; those passengers are paged to the United counter and presented with the soft sell...
...Ohio city as home for what is now the nation's No. 2 tiremaker. But Firestone Chairman John Nevin is treading on tradition with his plan to move the head office to Chicago later this year. Nevin's explanation: the Windy City is a financial, retailing and transportation hub. It is also near Winnetka, Ill., where Nevin's family lives in a house he visits monthly...