Word: malls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prominent civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is planning a big speech on the Washington Mall. Influenced by the success of product placements in President Kennedy's Inaugural Address ("Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to the Pepsi generation . . ." and so forth), Marty is prepared to build a big dream sequence around a few selected products. For $20,000, he will declare, "I have a dream that some day blacks and whites will sit together at McDonald's, sharing a Big Mac and fries." For $40,000, he will display...
Tragos adds that since Harvard products are now available "in every suburban shopping mall," there should be an incentive to come to Harvard Square. "Business is bad in Harvard Square. There's no parking. All the merchants had a terrible winter. Why do they need to raise prices?" Tragos asks...
...Pavillion at Saks, Houston, Texas: In 1986, Aeneas Holdings acquired a 50 percent stake in this mall for $7.1 million. Harvard now estimates the value of the investment as $13.4 million...
Each class of about 46 agents moves through an intensive 14-week training course that begins with lessons in surveillance. They track a suspect from his home, then observe him at a shopping mall as he sells a small bag of phony cocaine. Next comes a class in simple arrest, when agents burst into a fleabag motel to capture an unarmed John as he lies in bed with a make-believe prostitute. Agents learn how to frisk suspects, read them their rights, and complete arrest forms. Instructors, all of whom are former agents, carefully critique every arrest, providing pointers...
Other Massachusetts courts have used the same law to restrict the rights of shopping mall owners and symphony orchestras to take action against people based on the nature of their speech. The message the courts have sent is that even if you own the property, you don't have an absolute right to control what is said there...