Word: riverwalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's Riverwalk and in hotel lobbies and elevators, where the songsters break out in "woodshedding" -- the impromptu jam-session-like warbling of old chestnuts -- the camaraderie runs thick. At the Hyatt Regency, three old-timers search the crowd for a baritone. "Come over here, Jamie," one hollers. Let Me Call You Sweetheart suddenly gushes forth, halting a bellman in his tracks...
...trading currency that a broker like Packwood needs to win the support of key legislators, who are thus able to please powerful constituents. The present tax bill might never have cleared the Senate Finance Committee without rules benefiting a slew of projects in the New Orleans area, like the Riverwalk shopping-and-office development, that were added by ranking Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana...
...century warehouses, whose harmonious blend of textures and styles-Greek revival, Italianate and postmodern-is unmatched in any other U.S. city. These will be converted into badly needed offices, apartments and stores. The future star of the levee will be a $55 million shopping-and-entertainment mall called the Riverwalk, to be designed and run by the Rouse Co., which developed Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Baltimore's Harborplace...
Aided by migration from the North, its population has increased 21%, from 650,000 to 788,000 in the past decade, making it the ninth largest city in the U.S. (Hispanics now account for 53%.) Four new hotels have sprung up along the city's "Riverwalk," a charming, Old World district of shops and cafes along the San Antonio River. So far, seven high-technology electronics firms have announced plans to build or expand in the city; they could create as many as 5,000 new jobs...