In 2007, with the economy still booming, the coalition convinced city and county council members to approve a new 1% tax on hotel beds, half of which would go to the downtown projects.

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Grant began to go downtown regularly to the Grant and Ward offices, where he would greet new investors, who were suitably impressed to meet him.

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When she couldn't sleep, Clark made a pact with another survivor to go sit in the dark at the bombing memorial downtown, where the OKC marathon begins.

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Mr. JACKIE MCLEAN (Saxophonist): We'd go downtown at 8:30, see Charlie Parker walking to the clubs, stand outside the club until about quarter of ten and make a mad dash for the subway so we could get home.

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The Harrison is where to go for that most elusive combination of good food, friendly service and hip Downtown chic.

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"The only reason they want us to go back to collective bargaining is so they can lock us out, " Mr. Quinn said outside the federal courthouse in downtown St.

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