Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Owners of new businesses felt the pressure last week as well. Renee Ickson Young, 27, opened her own public relations firm in Manhattan last year. When she heard the news of last Monday's mayhem, she realized that she would have to adjust her business plan. "In a crunch," she says, "the extras are the first things to go at a company, and public relations is considered an extra." Until last week, Jo Ann Coogan, 30, of Dearborn, Mich., was planning to open a small brokerage. But her start-up money was heavily invested in the stock market...
Last week a U.S. district court in Manhattan ruled that Sumitomo violated U.S. patent law by copying too closely the designs of products made by Corning Glass Works, the company that developed the first commercially useful communications fibers in 1970. The court enjoined Sumitomo from making and selling in the U.S. any more fibers based on Corning's designs, and will award financial damages to the American company within a few weeks. Sumitomo says it is considering an appeal...
Scenes from contemporary Manhattan life: a leggy choreographer, who can swing the rent on her funky loft apartment only by sharing it with two gay male roommates, sprawls and stares, momentarily graceless in grief. One of them, who was also her collaborator, has died in a boating accident; the other, whose solace she craves, is not at home. Her boyfriend shows up, and she tries to send him away. Their sexual and romantic intimacy cannot begin to compare with the bond she felt toward the dead man who shared her work. She has never had -- is not sure...
...expanded the range of occupations that can be successfully pursued in studies or basements. The swelling ranks of stay-at- homers include management consultants, stockbrokers, newsletter publishers, advertising directors, energy engineers, urban planners and graphic designers. The number of home professionals, which now totals 9 million, according to the Manhattan-based Link Resources research firm, has been growing at a rate of more than 15% a year and is expected to hit 13 million by 1990, or 11.4% of the U.S. work force...
...that list, "having an uncanny sense of timing." While panicky investors in lower Manhattan spent Monday jettisoning their stocks like sandbags in a sinking hot-air balloon, the owner of the New York Yankees in the South Bronx reshuffled his management with characteristically reckless impatience...