Word: manhattanization
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When John C. Whitehead was asked to run the government body charged with redeveloping the area surrounding the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan, his first reaction was one of shock...
...York Gov. George E. Pataki gave Whitehead only 48 hours to decide whether he would head the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC). Immediately, Whitehead received phone calls from prominent politicians and community leaders encouraging him to take the position...
Whitehead’s ability to manage different projects well was prominent in his selection as chair of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation this year...
...wanted to make a TV show about the Hamptons, the seaside Long Island, N.Y., enclave that hosts Manhattan's rich and sybaritic every summer, you might call Dynasty's Aaron Spelling, Sex and the City's Darren Star or whoever produces Wild On for the E! network. You probably wouldn't call Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple, known for her socially conscious films about coal miners and meat-packers, unless the show involved unionizing the caterers and polo-horse grooms...
Conant had taken a leave of absence from Harvard during the Second World War to personally contribute to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s ’26 Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M., which led to the development of the atom bomb...