Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then there's Harrison, Ark., a quiet Ozarks farm town (pop. 11,611) that is becoming a mecca for anyone who fears the worst from the computer bug. Up to 100 local citizens there attend twice-monthly meetings of a group called Y2K Watch. And in August, a Y2K town meeting brought at least 700 people to an auditorium at North Arkansas College. "My purpose was not to scare anyone but to begin talking about economic self-sufficiency," says former mayor Dan Harness, who organized the gathering, which had representatives from a local utility, a bank, hospital and phone company...
Once a blue-collar city dominated by industry and manufacturing, Cambridge slowly emerged as a mecca for students and professionals, sparking a rise in rents...
...tourist destination in the state, Faneuil Hall is a mecca for mainstream clothing stores like the Gap, Ann Taylor and Express. So is Harvard Square, the No. 2 destination, and home to those stores as well Structure and, soon, Abercrombie & Fitch...
...begun in small measure. Predicted cash cows such as Deep Impact and Godzilla brought in less than expected at the box office. If the failure of these films starts a trend, then studios may begin to re-emphasize plot lines more over explosions. Though Hollywood may never become a mecca for high art, we can hope to receive a little more thematic bang for our buck. Alex M. Carter '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...slip in the news that he was a different kind of cowboy. Not until his early 20s, as an exchange student in Florida, did he come out, and there is something to be learned about diversity in Wyoming when you hear Korhonen say, "Orlando was like a gay Mecca...