Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election system, seemed to be taking an amazing of them to Hart's none and Jesse Jackson's four. The voting booths had closed in California, with its enticing of 306 delegates, but early exit polls indicated a tight race. Arriving at a party in St. Paul's Radisson Plaza Mondale reached out to his rivals and their backers. "I want your support," he said, "and I intend to earn it." After delivering a Satchel Paige warning to Ronald Reagan, "Don't look back, somebody's gaining on you," the contented Mondale ordered a batch of cheeseburgers, celebrated with friends...
This partnership has pumped an abundance of money and ideas into Indianapolis and has resulted in more than 20 major downtown renewal and construction projects for housing, office, convention and cultural space. Since 1974, nearly $800 million has been spent on such impressive projects as the one at Merchants Plaza, a downtown complex of two office towers and a Hyatt hotel with an elaborate atrium. The city seeded the development by issuing $4 million in bonds, purchasing a four-acre plot, then leasing the land to a group of local bankers and businessmen...
...critics are unimpressed. "Kitsch," some of them proclaim. The works, says Los Angeles Sculptor Richard Oginz, "strike a Norman Rockwell note." Indeed, Johnson is not about to knock Rodin off his pedestal, but his garden-variety American archetypes are a welcome-and welcoming-relief from "plunk art": find a plaza, acquire something made of huge welded beams, then plunk it down...
...such as it was, equally unconventional. A highlight of my freshman year was going, with three of my brothers, to a dance at Paul Revere Hall in the Mechanics Building around New Years. What made this very different from the tea dances my classmates might attend at the Copley Plaza was that my brothers and I and a trumpet player named Max Eaminsky were the only white people in the crowd welcoming Louis Armstrong for his first Boston appearance...
...March 22, Brant and Felis met with Winans and Carpenter over dinner at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to discuss how they would handle the SEC inquiry. Winans said Brant told him, "All we say is that ... I was the source of yours and we talked frequently and we just guessed ... what direction the columns were going to go in." Brant also promised to pay Carpenter $50,000 or $60,000 after selling an apartment he owned. Brant added, "When it is all over, we will go into business in Florida and will all become millionaires...