Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no reason why TV should not have its own version of the New York Daily News or even the National Enquirer, alongside World News Tonight and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. "I see myself as an alternative vision," says Rivera, "not one dictated by the suits on Sixth Avenue ((Manhattan's network row))." Although his antics often seem self-aggrandizing and overwrought, Geraldo finds the TV universe is big enough...
...committee opposed measures calling onmilitary firms to diversify and convert theiroperations to civilian production; onmanufacturers to develop cleanup plans forhazardous waste; on Chase Manhattan Bank toexplain its Third World loans in light of theworld debt crisis; and on energy firms to cancelplans for nuclear plants...
...graduate work at Harvard and Oxford.) At 17 she married sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, just ten days after she met him. The marriage, which lasted seven years, was her first and last. It produced a son, David, now 36, an editor and writer in Manhattan and another of his mother's consuming passions...
...does not, experts like Robert Chandross, chief economist at Lloyds Bank in Manhattan, warn that prices could drop below $10 per bbl. and remain at that level for the next six months. That would mean a repeat by next spring of the oil-market collapse of early 1986, when OPEC overproduction sent prices crashing to less than $10 per bbl. While cheap energy helps most Western economies by lowering inflation, petroleum at prices below $10 or $12 per bbl. is a painful prospect for such indebted oil producers as Algeria and Mexico and the weakened U.S. energy belt...
...executive at Manhattan's Harry Winston jewelers confirms that Mrs. Reagan has continued to borrow expensive accessories, even though there had been some White House embarrassment in 1981 at disclosures that Winston had given her a | diamond necklace and diamond earrings for the first Inaugural Ball. At retail, the combination would be worth about $480,000. "At times Mrs. Reagan has borrowed items," this source says. "She has worn on other occasions -- but not in America -- a pair of diamond earrings that are $800,000 with ten-carat drops...