Word: manhattanization
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...anxiety level was already plenty high. Anthrax exposure was appearing at all the networks, in the midtown Manhattan office of New York Governor George Pataki and among lab and postal workers who had handled suspicious letters. The Capitol had been on edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have...
...bright photography, director Iain Softley quickly draws in his audience with an intriguing opening to his film. Spacey stands with a beatific smile on his face, framed by the light within the bustle of a train station. An alien from distant planet K-PAX, Prot (Spacey) has arrived in Manhattan to experience Earth...or is he merely delusional...
...anthrax. The CIA announced that it had found a trace amount of anthrax in a mail-handling facility at its headquarters. Across the city, further environmental tests on congressional office buildings revealed more traces of anthrax. And in New York, scientists found anthrax on four letter-sorting machines at Manhattan's central mail-processing station...
...Postal workers are, of course, at the center of the anthrax storm. Postal union members in two cities plan to file lawsuits against management; in New York, the workers are suing to close the Manhattan processing facility, where traces of anthrax were found on a sorting machine. In Florida, union members claim management did not respond adequately to workers' safety concerns after the first case of anthrax was diagnosed in Boca Raton...
Other grandparents prefer the freedom and intimacy of traveling on their own, whether on a trip to Europe or a local vacation in the RV. When Joyce Hall, a Manhattan singing teacher and grandmother ("in my 60s"), travels independently, she takes one grandchild at a time. Planning her trips to mesh with the child's interests, she goes to cities and stays at hotels she's familiar with--to minimize snafus and unpleasant surprises...