Word: parking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pink marble walls of the atrium, that cost $200 million to build in 1982; Trump Plaza, a 37-story East 61 Street castle that has housed, among others, Dick Clark and Martina Navratilova; and Trump Parc, a 37-story caravansary that was once the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel, overlooking Central Park...
Sometimes Trump shows an absolute genius for combining profits with publicity and doing good deeds in the process. Consider the Wollman ice- skating rink in Central Park, which city authorities had closed down in 1980 for a $9 million refurbishing. Somehow they managed to spend $12 million on preliminary maneuvering without anything whatever to show for it. Looking down at the mess from his skyscraper windows, Trump was displeased. Offering to do the job himself on the original budget within three months, he completed it for $750,000 less -- and now operates the rink at an annual profit...
...transform the old bases. Forty-two former Pentagon airfields have become local airports. When the government closed Kincheloe Air Force Base near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., eleven years ago, 700 civilian jobs vanished and the surrounding community in the Upper Peninsula lost 33% of its population. Today an industrial park at the old base site provides work to four times as many civilians as Kincheloe employed. Success stories like these give credence to the view of Republican Congressman Dick Armey who authored the legislation on installation shutdowns: "There is indeed life after base closings...
Started in 1985 with help from Kitty Dukakis, the program seeks to improve "public spaces," such as parks and recreational areas. Winthrop Park on JFK Street was one of the program's projects, Robin said...
...Harvard shop t-shirt and run. Harvard beat Andy Warhol's prediction by 349 years and 45 minutes, but its moment in the spotlight seems to be over. Our most famous professor (John Rawls) gets confused with a bad singer (Lou). The ghost of Bill Buckner still haunts Fenway Park. America's president is a Yalie and, even more disappointing, we lost The Game this year...