Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that anyone foresees an actual recession--at least not before the year 2000 (known as Y2K to computer programmers, who are racing to make their electronic brains distinguish that year from 1900). In the majority opinion of TIME's board, which convened recently in Manhattan, the U.S. economy should continue growing over the next year and a half at somewhere between 2% and 3% annually. That is below the sizzling 3.7% of 1997 and the phenomenal 4.8% of this year's first quarter, but near--maybe a bit above--what used to be considered sustainable for the long haul...
...Sahl of the '90s. The New York Observer described one of my early performances: "He holds the microphone like a dead fish." Trust me, I've grown as an artist. I have a monthly gig, along with four other talented baby-boomer comics, at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan. The Washington Post dubbed our performance LAUGH RIOT IN THE BIG APPLE. My sold-out one-man show in Paris prompted Le Monde to gush, "Jerry Lewis, move over." (O.K., I made that last...
...microbiology and immunology professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Manhattan, Bloom brings a scientific perspective to important public health issues, Rudenstine said...
Hundreds of well-dressed women are sniffing one another. They sit under a marquee spelling THAT'S SCENTERTAINMENT in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, asking one another, "Do you like my fragrance?" The answer, invariably...
Cacheris can play hardball, but he wraps his barbs in gentlemanly tones. "He can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip," says John Moscow of the Manhattan district attorney's office. Like all good lawyers, Cacheris knows that in many cases, a deal beats a court fight hands down. Beneficiaries of his bargaining skills include Fawn Hall, the former secretary to Oliver North who won immunity in exchange for testimony, and Ames, who faced a possible death sentence until Cacheris secured a life-in-prison plea bargain. But Cacheris...