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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: K Street
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.061741.3474@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com> <1992Dec24.090525.4356@osf.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:17:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.090525.4356@osf.org> sp@osf.org (Simon Patience) writes:
- >In article <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com>, dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- >> I ran across a reference to K Street in a recent Economist. The exact
- >> context was that Capitol Hill and K Street would be pleased with
- >> Bentsen's appointment as Treasury Secretary.
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- >> Oviously this is metonomy, but for what? I assume that this is refering
- >> to K Street in Washington, D.C., but what's on K Street. My guess is
- >> that it's the headquarters of the Treasury Dept. and that this is
- >> refering to the rank and file Treasury bureaucrats.
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- >> This also reminded me of a short list that I have of streets that have
- >> become metonyms or toponyms.
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- >> Wall St.
- >> Madison Ave.
- >> Fleet St.
- >> Skid Road an actual road in Seattle
-
- >Isn't that Skid Row?
-
- >> Grub Street my dictionary tells me that this referes to literary
- >> hacks, but I've never heard it used.
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- The Bowery.
- Downing St.
- 47th St.
-
- >Threadneedle St (probably UK specific, it's where the Bank of England is)
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- Roger
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