Word: manhattanization
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...calls to avoid paying high access fees to local carriers. In some cases, it meant the fees were dumped on other carriers, like AT&T, it was alleged. Verizon steered the whistleblower, along with additional evidence it had been able to gather, to the U.S. Attorney?s office in Manhattan. News of the investigation broke a week ago, and MCI hired a law firm to do yet another internal investigation...
SOMEWHERE ALONG I-95—My dad used to tell me about his “weekend commuter” colleagues, the ones that worked with him in downtown Manhattan, but lived way out in Rochester and western Connecticut. They kept apartments in the city and took long trips home each weekend, seeming to spend just enough time there to eat a meal or two with their families and friends, and maybe get in a round of golf, before heading back for another week at the office...
...report to work in Cambridge every weekday, but my family and many of my friends are miles away in Manhattan. And so now, in my predicament, the four-hour bus ride nearly every weekend is worth...
During the past school year, the answer was cut and dried. Harvard was the place where I took classes, got stressed out and became excited about returning to Manhattan for vacation. Even though my bed was in Canaday, home was always New York. But now I’m not doing homework. Instead, I’m working two jobs, and even though some Harvard institution is doling out both paychecks, I’m on my own and liking it that...
...twin towers that loomed so large in my youth were gone—and I had not been there to say goodbye. New hot neighborhoods—like the Brooklyn blocks whimsically dubbed DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)—had sprung up without me to gaze in their shop windows. And a new mayor had wiped out the city’s recycling program and banished smoke clouds from sidewalk cafes...