Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that gets West Coasters down, they can always emigrate ? to Dublin, perhaps, which tops the European list; or Santiago, Fortune's Latin American Mecca. But with Rudy Giuliani almost certain to win reelection Tuesday, it looks as if nothing can stain the Big City's smile. Start spreading the news...
Today, it has become somewhat of a mecca for Halloween wanderers, creating a "Mardi Gras-type atmosphere," says Sean Coughlin, an employee of the Salem Wax Museum...
...fairness, South Florida only had the Dolphins until the NBA's Miami Heat was born in 1989. Baseball and hockey would follow in 1993 and 1994, respectively, making Miami the Mecca of league expansion. In that short time, these teams have returned the city to athletic prominence but have been unable to capture the ultimate prize...
...eight years since it opened, the Porter Exchange has become New England's mecca of Japanese culture, drawing customers from New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut...
...York is going through one of its up periods. I have never seen Manhattan looking so prosperous. Somebody planted petunias in huge hangers up and down the street-lamps of 34th Street. Lower Sixth Avenue is a refurbished shoppers mecca. And in place of the old, ugly little traffic-island cum death trap on the corner of my tiny three-block long Greenwich Village street sits a new, brilliantly designed safe and elegant little garden. There are still homeless people sleeping in Abingdon Square, but someone has planted cosmos-flowers there too. I've never seen such things outside Vermont...