Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York that afternoon, Mayor Rudy Giuliani was trying to close the stock exchange (the traders wouldn?t go) and sent the Big Apple home early. The news outlets thundered, residents gossiped excitedly, and Floyd? Mostly, Floyd just rained. In the morning, that was on every newsstand in town. It was a beautiful sunny...
...pulled a Michigan J. Frog, croaking when it was supposed to sing and dance, but there was always the lure of the might-still, the carnage yet to be. And until Friday, when the word "fizzled" finally appeared in headlines, it was big, nation-binding business for the national town criers. Much bigger, and much better, than the random killing of some teenagers as they prayed...
...Thorpe lives in a house he built using materials from an old barn, 10 miles from the nearest town, on a hill overlooking the Appalachians. And as for his status as a Harvard student, "lots of people know but nobody cares," he says...
...Gown Without a Town...
...increase its payment in lieu of taxes to the city by $12 million. But the fact remains that by covering up its purchases, even in order to protect itself from inflated real estate prices, Harvard acquired its land in an underhanded manner, a move that will likely taint town-gown relations for years to come...