Word: mall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students--undergraduate and graduate students--arrived early in the morning and gathered for the three-mile march on the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol. From there, they marched passed the monument to the White House and on to the Capitol Lawn for a four-hour rally. The rally featured speeches by NOW President Eleanor Smeal, Ms. Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, and former New York State Representative Bella Abzug...
...Nashville shopping mall was an odd place for the skein of corruption scandals that have ensnarled New York City and Chicago to begin unraveling. But that was where police picked up Michael Burnett, a corpulent ex-con, swindler and murder suspect who was to provide important evidence in corruption investigations in both cities. Burnett, police said later, had stopped at the mall to make last-minute preparations for a burglary. Inside his van, officers found a submachine gun, ammunition and an automatic pistol...
...long-standing racial divide. Civil rights leaders saw it as a clumsy move to keep out blacks from Detroit. In retaliation, the N.A.A.C.P. organized a boycott of Dearborn's stores, including those at Fairlane Town Center, a 2,360-acre complex that includes the state's largest shopping mall. Before the boycott, an estimated 28% of Fairlane's shoppers were black. Says the Rev. Charles Adams, minister of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and head of the Detroit N.A.A.C.P.: "They welcome us to shop in their stores, but don't allow us to stop in their parks...
...visitors a year. Unlike Walt Disney World and Disneyland, which rank ahead of it, Heritage USA charges no admission. The grandiose 2,300-acre project, which is years away from completion, includes Bakker's Assemblies of God church, a 500-room luxury hotel, a mock turn-of-the-century mall with 25 boutiques under an artificial sky, and an amphitheater for staging passion plays and living Nativity spectacles...
...reason flowers are selling fast is that they are now available in so many places besides traditional florist shops. They are sprouting in grocery stores, in malls, on street corners. The Cincinnati-based Kroger chain has put flower sections in almost 60% of its 1,351 supermarkets. At the Apache mall in Rochester, Minn., Bachman's, a prominent Minnesota florist, runs a row of well-stocked kiosks called the European Flower Markets, where customers can shop without passing through any doors. And in Miami, New York and other cities, traffic-dodging vendors hawk $2 bunches to motorists who are willing...