Word: manhattanization
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...financial markets were closed before they opened Tuesday after the collapse - the eradication - of both towers of the World Trade Center bathed most of lower Manhattan in rubble, smoke and bodies...
...given day, according to city officials, the two towers might hold 10,000 people each, and as many as 50,000, most of whom are employed at the 1,200 offices and businesses that make lower Manhattan the heart of the financial world...
...YORK: Security clamped down across the state. Security increased at border points. Gov. George Pataki canceled his New York City events. NEW YORK CITY: Elections called off. Airports closed. Trading on Wall Street suspended. United Nations building evacuated. Offices throughout Manhattan closed. Children in Manhattan kept in schools because their parents could not get to them. Subway lines shut down. Cellular phone service crippled. Regular phone service congested. Evacuations from Wall Street to the United Nations. Lower Manhattan closed to all but emergency vehicles. Bridges and tunnels into Manhattan closed. Rockefeller Center property managers urged tenants to go home...
...cease to be a "vibrant international hub." The ensuing years made the argument seem naive, and Hong Kong's élite still cite it as an example of foreign ignorance. Local hubris hit a high recently when a senior official proclaimed that Hong Kong is destined to become a "Manhattan Plus...
...Hong Kong is not quite dead, but it is bleeding. It badly needs leaders that can rally the community to accept short-term pain for long-term benefit. Otherwise, Hong Kong in 10 years' time won't be a "Manhattan," let alone its "Plus," but something more like a "Shanghai Minus...