Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...associates on the oil company's 14-member board in a bid to force Texaco to consider his $60-a-share takeover offer. While the exact tally of the votes is likely to take several more weeks, Icahn figured that he narrowly lost after several major stockholders, notably the Manhattan investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, said they had voted for Texaco's current management...
Leaping limos! Superrich Texan Lamar Hunt rides the subway when he visits New York City? Apparently so, because a free-lance photographer last week spied Hunt, 55, and his wife Norma as they emerged from the U.S. District Court building in lower Manhattan and headed down to the tunnels...
...much as $35,000 more than a regular one-page color ad in a magazine like Mademoiselle. Some readers still complain about the most aggressive inserts, and other, unscented advertisers may be afraid that readers will discard the magazine to escape from a smelly page. Gripes Nancy Conarroe, a Manhattan food consultant: "I am allergic to perfume, and I get angry when magazines invade my space with aromas that are offensive and unwanted...
...prospered, the Brawley case has got nowhere. Attorney General Abrams declared at week's end that unless the Brawleys turn about and tell what they know, the "investigation is not going to succeed." Given the prospect of thwarted justice, it was hard to argue with the view expressed by Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who also is black, about Glenda Brawley's new status as a fugitive. "I don't think any purpose would be served by locking up the mother," he said. "The rule of law is important, but this is a unique and strange situation...
Like most places that provide assistance for the poor, the Legal Aid Society's Park Place office in Manhattan is overwhelmed. Flooded with requests for help, the 26 lawyers who work there resort to a kind of triage system, sometimes choosing to block an eviction before untangling a Social Security foul-up, or rushing to counter an immigration problem while other clients wait for assistance in getting welfare benefits. "We just don't have the money or the staffing to do it all," says Attorney Morton Dicker...