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- <title>
- Mar. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Tourism
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 65
- Business Notes
- TOURISM
- Who You Callin' Rude, Bud?
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- <body>
- <p> New Yorkers take a perverse pride in their legendary
- brusqueness. But local leaders are beginning to be worried that
- the city's surly citizens are hurting tourism, a major industry.
- Herb Rickman, president of New York Pride, a nonprofit promoter
- of civic activism, says surveys show that visitors increasingly
- cite such enduring city icons as crabby cabbies and snarling
- salesclerks as serious arguments against a return visit.
- Rickman's response: the Civility Campaign, an effort to make New
- Yorkers a little more pleasant.
- </p>
- <p> The campaign will begin with a series of ads featuring such
- slogans as "C'mon New York, Ease Up" and "We're All in It
- Together." While Manhattan is the capital of curtness, Rickman
- has received inquiries from around the world asking how to start
- similar undertakings in urban etiquette.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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