Word: mall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relations with Yale can improve any from where they stand now," New Haven Mayor Biagio DiLieto said of the Chapel Mall loan. "This bespeaks a recognition on Yale's part that it has more than a moral obligation to New Haven," he added...
...February 14, the University authorized a loan of that amount to the Rouse Company of Columbia, for the acquisition and rehabilitation of New Haven's Chapel Square Mall. Although interest on the loan is slightly below the current market rate, the University will receive a percentess of the mall's operating profits for its outlay, according to a project report released by Rouse...
Funk spends all day and all evening hanging around the mall. The patriarch of the rat community, he boasts that he "has been her through about three generations of mall rats." Apparently pleasant though somewhat passive, he understands his situation, but can't muster up enough energy to do anything about it, saying, "I'm unemployed and I really don't have anything else to do or anywhere else to go, because of my lifestyle...
Funk leads his compatriots in apathy on their listless rounds through the mall, from arcade to pizza parlor to benches in the main thoroughfares of the mall. When they are bored, they watch television in one of the mall's appliance stores; when they are tired they rest on the couches in the furniture department at Montgomery Ward's oblivious to the shoppers inspecting their restingplaces...
...image is perhaps a trifle extreme, but for Punk, the archetype of the breed, ambition does not extend even onto the macadam of the mall's parking lot. Because he has a criminal record (for burglarizing stores in the mall, of course), he is pessimistic about hit future. "I probably couldn't get a job here now," he says wistfully. "Unless--" we imagine his dull eyes catching a tiny spark--"I go down to the other end, where they don't know...