Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being a doctor. Every weekday she boarded the No. 6 bus in her predominantly black Buffalo, New York, neighborhood for the 50-minute ride to Cheektowaga, a white suburb, where she worked as a cashier at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips in the glittering, white-marbled Walden Galleria Mall. Often during the day, charter buses would pull into the Galleria parking lot and disgorge shoppers from as far away as Canada. But the city bus wasn't allowed on mall property. Wiggins had to get out 300 yards away on Walden Avenue, a busy seven-lane highway with no sidewalk...
Soon after her death, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which oversees public transportation in the area, released internal documents to show it had tried for more than eight years to get the mall owners, the Syracuse-based Pyramid Companies, to allow the No. 6 bus to stop in the mall's parking lot. A Pyramid official blames the N.F.T.A. for not moving the bus stop to a safer spot on the mall's perimeter. But a former owner of a shoe store at the Galleria came forward to say that in his lease negotiations with the mall, a Pyramid official...
...probably add liquor to," said the manager of the Porter Square Star Market, who declined to give his name during an interview. "But the Porter Square store would not add liquor because of a lack of space and the existence of a small liquor store in the Porter Square mall next door...
...weather? (November, too warm to purchase winter apparel; December, too snowy to trek to the mall.) Or were there just too many new stores? Retail-sales growth in December ranked as the worst since the 1990-91 recession. Sales were up only 2% compared with the previous year's figures. In December 1994, sales were 5.4% higher than...
...almost doubled its budget for responding to nuclear emergencies, now at $70 million annually. The core of the effort is the Nuclear Emergency Search Team--NEST. These are the people America will call on if and when someone claims to have hidden an atom bomb in the Mall of America...