Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams set a school record for assists in a game, getting three as Columbia crushed Manhattan...
Then the artist regressed into his character. Shakur carried a gun and shot at people. He escaped conviction on a series of assault charges, but a 1993 sexual-abuse complaint stuck. He arrived for sentencing in a wheelchair; days earlier, he had been shot five times in a Manhattan "robbery" he regarded as a failed hit. Out on appeal last October, he sought protection under the wing of the massive, much feared Knight, who was deeply embroiled in his feud with Bad Boy and the East. In two years the conflict had moved far beyond artistic issues to beatings...
...made up of people, some of whom work harder than others, some of whom are more talented than others, but most of whom just have a work ethic. They relate to a President who feels the same. Forget the character question. It's the work ethic, stupid. MICHAEL BOUTIS Manhattan Beach, California...
That kind of optimism is endemic among the legions of medical researchers now engaged in the most momentous technological effort since the Manhattan atom-bomb project: decoding the messages contained in human DNA. Aided largely by grants from the federally funded Human Genome Project, they are striving toward the major goal of mapping the genome and identifying all its estimated 50,000 to 100,000 genes by the year...
...retired and recently widowed, Albert Schmidt is at a lonely but attractive crossroads, contemplating his fate somewhere in Bridgehampton, Long Island, a summer sporting grounds for New York City's diverse meritocracy. Schmidt's own credentials are hard-earned: a sheepskin from Harvard and a partnership at a leading Manhattan law firm. He also belongs to a high caste: the Wasp establishment that first built the shingled 14-room "cottages" and exclusive country clubs of the Hamptons...