Word: piers
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...This whole thing is short-lived,” says Jim Hutchigs, who works at Anthony’s Pier 4, a small store that advertises live Maine lobsters for tourists next to the American Airlines Terminal B security gate. He gestures to the airline employees in front of the security gate. “How long is this going to last...
...Hutchigs, who has watched countless passengers pass through the security gate in his months behind the Pier 4 counter, says he believes the security measures should have been implemented years before, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center...
Massport opened the Exchange Center on the Boston Fish Pier and outfitted the space with cots and food to help passengers like Muller, who were unable to find accomodations in the city’s overbooked hotels for the night...
...first guests to arrive at Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island's Grand Hotel in 1887 were met at the pier by horse-drawn carriages. When they ventured forth from the hotel, it was by horse or buggy or bike. And so it is today, as a ban on automobiles enacted a century ago remains in force. Like those early travelers, today's Grand guests sit in big, wooden rockers on what, at 660 ft., is still the world's longest hotel porch...
...improves an economy's competitiveness. Trade does so because it stimulates local suppliers to match the quality and variety of imported goods. Tourism does so because returning travelers demand the goods and services they have seen in foreign countries. Near my office in New York City, a branch of Pier 1 Imports looks like a cross between a yard sale and the great house of a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia. You can buy everything from Filipino and Indonesian cabinets to a Kyoto dining room and a Jamaican bedroom. (Jamaica as a source of fashionable bedroom furniture--who knew...