Entitled "The New Establishment," The Washingtonian's  1993 article by Senior writer Larry Van Dyne examines the dispersion of power taking place in the region at the time as suburbs expanded, local businesses were bought up by national companies and the population boomed. To read more about these forces of change and their effect in the remaking of Washington click here.

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