Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black cumulonimbus clouds rolled in on New York City, darkening the afternoon sky up to nearly 40,000 ft. Lightning bolts darted above Manhattan's skyscrapers. Thunder sporadically overwhelmed the city's normal noises of traffic, subways and sirens. It would be a wet but cool rush hour, a welcome break in the summer's first siege of humid heat...
...Released in September 1971 after four years in jail, he now rides to work in a chauffeured 21-ft. Cadillac limousine. For that work he rents a choice office suite: the $85,000-a-year, eight-room penthouse atop the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. That eyrie high above Manhattan is symbolic of King's position as the most audacious and suddenly the most powerful promoter in sport-and one of the most successful black businessmen in America...
Recent analyses by New York's First National City Bank, Chase Manhattan and Morgan Guaranty Trust suggest that OPEC's trade surpluses will peak around 1978 and actually swing to a deficit, perhaps of $56 billion (Morgan Guaranty's figure), by 1980. But Levy, one of the most widely respected private U.S. oil consultants, estimates that by 1980 the 13 OPEC countries will still be pulling $50 billion a year more in oil revenues out of the rest of the world than they return through purchases of goods and services. By then their accumulated surpluses of foreign...
Adman William G. ("Turk") Jones decided he had had enough of the frenzied pace of Madison Avenue: "Learning to shave on airplanes," as he puts it. So he quit his job in Manhattan, sold his house in the suburbs and in 1946 moved his family to a farm in central Pennsylvania. Then he began to do what he had always wanted-plant trees. Jones had a green thumb, his seedlings thrived, and word of his tree farm began to spread. Consequently, after Pennsylvania passed a law in 1948 requiring strip miners to refill and replant the land they had ravaged...
...days of the silents. Indeed, much of the movie could be played without a sound track. With such assets, it seems a pity that too much of Allen's comedy, with its incessant references to delicatessen, Jewish parents and neurotic hang-ups, remains on the streets of Manhattan...