Word: manhattanization
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...line, from the 1932 Grand Hotel, was often taken as Greta Garbo's autobiographical declaration. The unique actress remained above and apart from the Hollywood community in her 16 years there, and she compounded her aloof allure when, on quitting films at age 36, she took up residence in Manhattan and became the world's most famous, most observed recluse...
...Powell, and announce a Marshall Plan--style recovery package, so that the nation can see the breadth of the government's overall commitment rather than have it dribble out piecemeal. Sources tell TIME that one idea being strongly considered is the creation of a body similar to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is what the New York state and city governments did to oversee the rebuilding of ground zero. The White House has begun talking to possible candidates to lead the effort, the sources...
...much of it. The chase, often gripping, also goes on too long, though the bond between Halloway and his relentless chief pursuer -- the one person he can talk to and who truly understands him -- lends an intriguing psychological edge to the action. First Novelist H.F. Saint, 46, a Manhattan businessman, clearly knows his financial world and takes it none too seriously. Analysts, brokers, commodities traders are all wickedly caricatured, and in one of the book's most fascinating passages, Halloway's invisibility affords sweet revenge on the market's greed and phoniness. In need of untraceable income, he invents...
...Paul McGuinness. "I suppose that's true, but it is starting to change." And in a hurry, at that. Ask Thom House, who sold U2 concert tickets for local gigs via computer at his two video stores in New York and New Jersey. Crowds started lining up at his Manhattan store Thursday night, and at first, he says,"I had no idea why they were there. I chased them away, saying we were not selling tickets until Saturday. They kept coming back. We bought movie tickets and passed them out, so they could leave and come back. They stayed...
...behavior of the stockbrokers at Brooks, Weinger, Robbins & Leeds might have made for a biting off-Broadway play about sleazy morality on Wall Street -- if only the firm were fictional. The young professionals at the Manhattan penny-stock trading firm allegedly sold cocaine in stairwells, traded drugs for insider stock tips and routinely signed false names on important documents, among other offenses. Last week seven of the not-so-satirical brokerage employees were hauled away in handcuffs as part of a 19-person drug bust; it was one of the biggest undercover actions ever carried out in the Manhattan financial...