Word: malle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cars off the streets, the city has built an efficient new bus system. The centerpiece is the $15 million, twelve-block-long Portland Mall. Every bus route in the city begins and ends on this spacious thoroughfare, where travelers conveniently change from one coach to another. Since the mall's opening, bus ridership has risen 35%. In 1984 the city will complete a $100 million trolley line between Portland and its eastern suburbs...
Exxon is reconsidering the scope of its plans, but the development already taking place in western Colorado is leaving its mark. In Craig, which has doubled to 8,000 since 1975, businessmen boast of the new mall with 26 stores; clapboard houses that sold for $30,000 in 1974 now go for better than twice that amount. But Sheriff S.L. Valdez is handling three times the calls he did two years ago, and Carl Andrews, an Episcopal priest, reports a heavy incidence of depression and child abuse. Says he: "A lot of the hopes and dreams never materialize...
...read with surprise in the article on shopping centers [Oct. 20] that "In Asheville, N.C., 100 old buildings in the downtown area will be demolished to make room for a new enclosed shopping mall." To my knowledge, this is only an idea that has been proposed and is not at this time a fact. We have had calls from the news media inquiring why the city government has been keeping this a secret. To my knowledge, the city government is not keeping secrets from anyone...
...bounding good humor throughout the final days, buoyed by reports from his pollster, Richard Wirthlin, that he was steadily gaining. On Monday he played Peoria, Ill., and played it well, his voice getting richer and stronger throughout the day. At a campaign-closing rally in a shopping mall near San Diego, a few hecklers kept screaming "ERA!" Reagan stopped in mid-sentence and snapped, "Aw, shut up!" The crowd erupted with cheers of "Reagan!" The candidate cocked his head, grinned and said: "My mother always told me that I should never say that. But this is the last night...
Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Baltimore's Harborplace are both successful because their developers incorporated historic buildings into their schemes. The proposed mall in Asheville, N.C., however, will destroy structures of considerable potential in favor of a prepackaged design of no distinction...