Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nazis; she has pumped iron with the manly men. She ran like a rat on a treadmill and searched for Nirvana in yoga. Very little about her body changed over seven years, mostly because she seesawed from five-day-a-week workouts to none at all. Last November the Manhattan jewelry designer noticed a story about Pilates, a regimen based on stretching exercises. "I had no idea how to even pronounce it," says Bassett of her impulsive call to make an appointment. (It's Puh-lah-tees.) "I just knew...
...weeks ago, a Pilates class got so full that she had to take reservations and move to a bigger room. Still, she's skeptical about claims that the system is magical: "If that were the case, we'd close down our gyms and open Pilates studios." David Barton, Manhattan celebrity-gym owner and devoted pumper of iron, also offers Pilates classes, but he's a doubter too. All the talk of magically narrowing hips upsets him. "Find me the study that proves all this, and I will kiss that person's behind," he snorts...
...Detroit on July 20. Or take in other New York City sites: the dinosaur-rich American Museum of Natural History, the Children's Museum, Central Park's Wildlife Conservation Center or the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. If your kids eat, breathe and sleep baseball, take them to Manhattan for Mickey Mantle's Restaurant and Sports Bar or the Official All Star Cafe...
...banks of similar size to hook up without one paying a big premium for the other. Shareholders still get a (more modest) pop, but in both stocks, not just the target's. So you can do well owning the buying bank--say, a NationsBank, First Union or Chase Manhattan. In many cases, that will be the better long-term investment anyway. But I'd also consider simply plunking some money in a well-run regional bank-stock mutual fund like Fidelity's or John Hancock's. Both are up more than 55% in the past 12 months. There are still...
When Khentov's family emigrated to the U.S.from Russia 11 years ago, they moved to the LowerEast side of Manhattan to live with hisgrandparents. Although Khentov attended the laudedStuyvesant High School across town, he still hasfond memories of just hanging out at home, beingable to safely go places whenever he wanted...