Times Square, as so often in the past, is responding, in typically heightened form, to the general state of the city: the loss of retail variety troubles us everywhere, as a new trinity of monotony — Starbucks, Duane Reade, and the Washington Mutual Bank — appears to dominate every block.
Thomsen and her colleagues, like many researchers who work with infants, interpret such extra attention as evidence that the infant has noticed that something is amiss in this case, that their prediction that the large block should dominate the small block hasn't come true.
Since then Mr. Zabar's food operations have come to dominate the block, from the aroma of bread to the sound of shovelfuls of ice sprinkled over produce to the occasional barricades of pallets of supplies.
Pepe Castillo, a Puerto Rican musician who works at Made in Puerto Rico, stood at 116th Street and Third Avenue gazing east, his brow furrowed as he extolled the virtues of "hard working Mexicans" who now dominate the block.
When walking around Asheville, you can never predict which era will dominate the next block.
Restaurant supply stores dominate several blocks, with the wares spilling out onto the sidewalks.
The blocks that end at Fort Greene Park — especially South Oxford Street and South Portland Avenue — often dominate best-block lists, and well-kept houses there are usually surpassed in price only by those on Washington Park, a street that runs along the park.
J&R Music and Computer World, which dominates a block along Park Row, was closed for six weeks and lost tens of millions of dollars in vanished sales and ruined gizmos.
Barely five months old, Recruiter is the younger sister of Mr. Arroyo's adjacent tapas restaurant Cobras & Matadors, which has dominated this block of Hollywood Boulevard for eight years, alongside a vintage clothing store, a tattoo parlor and Sweeney Todd's Barber Shop.
Traffic and parking are also concerns, especially with the latest church under construction, a large building for the Gospel Lighthouse Assembly that dominates its block on Nassau Road, with scant off-street parking.
The first few years of fMRI were dominated by block design tasks that were essentially adapted from the PET literature.
