Word: manhattanism
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Unsatisfied with her experience, she then accepted an offer from Chase Manhattan Bank. Alemany said the increased face-to-face interaction and exposure to tremendous amounts of global travel her banking job offered convinced her to build her financial career...
...create a media circus and put the city at risk of another attack. Experts also noted the legal issues a civilian trial will raise--including the use of evidence obtained through waterboarding, to which Mohammed was subjected 183 times, and the difficulty of finding an impartial jury in a Manhattan courtroom just blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood...
...taken photos of each of their three daughters every day since they were born. Every month or so, he backs up the 25,000 photos, 1,000 videos and other files from nearly 25 years of PC use - which take up about 125 gb on his home computer in Manhattan - on an external hard drive that is not connected to his computer in order to keep it safe from viruses. In between these external-drive sessions, he relies on Mozy, which for $5 a month moseys along at a pace that will probably require two or three months to back...
...usually sticks to contemporary stories, or ones set in the recent past. (An exception, The Newton Boys, a 1920s-set western, was his least memorable film.) Nothing about Me and Orson Welles suggests a directorial affinity for period pieces. When a vintage ambulance pulls up to transport Welles around Manhattan, you half expect the prop master to pop out and buff the hood with pride. But Linklater's great strength lies in showing how "families" form in unexpected places, especially when it's a question of putting on a show. Here we're witnessing not only genius at work (watching...
...recent Friday afternoon, my partner and I lined up on 34th Street in Manhattan and took a BoltBus to Philadelphia for date night. The bus left on time and was packed with people hunched over their netbooks and PDAs. Even the one bit of trash I saw was upscale: a lipstick-smudged Starbucks cup. And the $20 round-trip fares made it a lot less painful to pay our babysitter when we got home...