Dispatch from Oz
Grant Barrett
gbarrett at MONICKELS.COM
Fri Sep 15 14:53:16 UTC 2000
On vendredi 15 septembre 2000, sagehen at SLIC.COM wrote:
>"Downtown" revisited:
>According to the CBC reporter on the news from Ottawa this
morning, the
>expression in Sydney is "CBD" for central business district.
Very popular in the US, particularly with zoning, planning and
economic development committees. I ran across it constantly this
year when writing a paper on New York City's zoning law changes
and years ago when I worked for a small newspaper in Missouri on
the occasion we put out an advertorial promoting the town of
Mexico.
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