Word: manhattanization
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...listener, who had once confused the word amenities with the word accessories in a conversation with a car dealer in Manhattan, only to be scolded, "You want amenities, try Eighth Avenue!" keeps his mouth shut. "Now we're airborne," Martin is saying...
Gottlieb, 28, is a long-haired chain smoker who works out of a cluttered apartment on Manhattan's Central Park South. A graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, he launched his company, TeeVee Toons, in August 1984 and subsequently raised $250,000 to finance it. He then acquired the rights to 65 of TV's most memorable sound tracks and hired Composer Dave Erlanger, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, to produce the record. Erlanger re-created some songs that were unavailable or too scratchy to use. At $16.95, Gottlieb's album has sold 225,000 copies...
...essence of capitalism is not making a profit. This can be done under the barter system. The basic element is the right of the citizen to own private property. In China, all the land is owned by the Central Committee, and it is not for sale. Wallace Dace Manhattan, Kans...
...proof was needed that Latin America's $360 billion debt burden is a time bomb with unpredictable implications, politically as well as economically, it came last week in Argentina, where a visit by retired Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller touched off the most serious street violence since the country's return to democracy more than two years ago. Rockefeller, whose former employer remains a major Argentine creditor, was in Buenos Aires to discuss Latin American economic development. Seven people were injured and 81 arrested when 1,500 leftist demonstrators hurled rocks and eggs, smashed windows and set fires...
Gimbels, a New York-based department-store chain founded in 1842 in Indiana, was put up for sale last week. It was a victim of the industry's vanishing middle. Gimbels' parent company, the British conglomerate B.A.T. Industries, is unloading Gimbels' flagship store in Manhattan, which once was a lively rival for nearby Macy's ("Does Gimbels tell Macy's?"), plus 35 other outlets in New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee...