Word: out-of-the-way
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...feeling the sting of sharply reduced real estate values, which are down by as much as 50% in some Manhattan and Toronto locations. But the most serious problem facing the family enterprise is London's $6.9 billion Canary Wharf project. A 71-acre office complex in the out-of-the-way Docklands area, it is the largest commercial property development in Europe. London faces a glut of 40 million sq. ft. of unused commercial space, though, and 40% of Canary Wharf remains vacant. Even that figure is deceptive, because many of Canary Wharf's tenants only signed on when...
Attracting a core of writers more interested incult groups than dean searches, The Whatprided itself on timely reporting on topicalissues, colorful essays on out-of-the-way places,and a funky, brash, offbeat style...
...Nielsen Top 30. Is there a comedy glut? Or, more likely, are viewers simply recoiling against network packaging that has grown so boringly rote and predictable that all signs of life have drained out? If so, relief is at hand: increasingly offbeat shows are cropping up in out-of-the-way places on the dial. Some deserve their obscurity. Others might shrivel in the glare of too much mass-audience attention. But what they all share is an eccentric, homemade, try-anything quality...
During Henry Aaron's 1974 stalk of the lifetime home-run record set by Babe Ruth (who dispensed autographs cheerfully and without charge but never could fathom their allure), Aaron took the alias of Diefendorfer in an attempt to throw off his pursuers. He registered that way in out-of-the-way havens and avoided the company of his Atlanta Braves teammates. But a small boy with a ball-point pen still found him in a cavern of the stadium. "Are you a Brave?" the boy asked. Aaron was charmed. "Sure am, son," he replied with a great laugh...
...course an underground rock scene flourished. Concerts were often a clandestine affair, staged on the spur of the moment in out-of-the-way auditoriums. And despite official discouragement, a few groups like Time Machine, the first band to sing openly about social problems, and the Leningrad-based Akvarium managed to thrive...