Dispatch from Oz

[Grant Barrett]

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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