Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lance had borrowed $2.7 million from Manhattan's Manufacturers Hanover Trust to buy 21% of the stock in the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). It was to refinance this loan, and to repay other debts, that he sought his $3.4 million loan late last year...
...Manhattan's upper Broadway, Chris Stola had replenished his stock of stereo equipment, put in a solid steel door in place of the vulnerable metal gate and was back in business. He was lucky; police had chased looters away from his store, so his losses totaled only about $2,000. But he got the jitters last week when some teen-agers bobbed their heads in the door and warned: "Next time we'll get you harder...
Hard Labor. Many merchants and city officials, black and white alike, called on the courts to set an example by dealing harshly with the 3,772 people arrested for looting and other crimes during the blackout. Said Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton. a black who is running in the Democratic primary for mayor: "If we go easy on the looters, we are obliterating the moral distinction between them and the vast majority of poor people who are law-abiding." As an alternative to prison, the New York Amsterdam News, the nation's largest secular black weekly (circ...
Impulse Purchase. Actually, business was starting to rebound even before July. In June sales were 16% above year-ago levels, and July's heat drove even more buyers into appliance stores. "It's an impulse item," explains Nicholas F. Tralongo, an appliance-industry analyst at Manhattan's Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co. "You have a bad week, and you rush...
...most vocal critics have been Marxist and other scholars with political points to make. University of Chicago Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins dismisses sociobiology as "genetic capitalism"?an attempt to defend the current structures of Western society as natural and inevitable. Jerome Schneewind, a philosopher at Manhattan's Hunter College, calls it "mushy metaphor . . . a souped-up version of Hobbes." Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Richard Lewontin is earthier; he thinks sociobiology is "bullshit...