Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rape case should force all who live and work here to recognize the risks of walking and studying alone and to work to counteract these risks. Harvard is not an island or a tower, but part of a city, and a dangerous one at that...
...just be diplomats having "full and frank discussions" during this week's demi-summit. Like a monk touring Las Vegas to understand what the fuss over sin is about, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will travel to the mountaintop of conspicuous consumption and wretched excess: Trump Tower...
Trump has been telling anyone who would listen that his tower is much more than a building; it "has become the biggest attraction in New York City." He wants Gorbachev to see the "whole concept of Trump Tower," which features standard Trump touches like imported breccia perniche marble, a cascading waterfall, bronze plaques with the letter T emblazoned on every surface where the name Trump is not, and celebrity residents paying some of the highest prices in Manhattan. After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour...
Gorbachev has long since demonstrated a potent blend of statesmanship and showmanship. He is a natural at working the crowds and attracting attention, as his schedule this week demonstrates. In the capital of capitalism, the world's top Communist will tour Trump Tower, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and perhaps the New York Stock Exchange. As the Secret Service and New York City police department prepared for Gorbachev's arrival, they were terrified that he would leap from his limousine on Wall Street, on Broadway or along Fifth Avenue to press the flesh, just as he did outside a power...
...Soviet leader will address the United Nations, tour a capitalist pleasure dome, then fly to Castro' s Cuba. -- Here' s how high- tech weapons like the Stealth bomber and SDI could make the world less stable. -- Why Bush lets ; Tower twist slowly in the wind. -- The Democrats wrestle with their Jackson problem...