Word: campgrounds
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...mayor, and electing Jordan, a moderate Democrat. Jordan's promises to clean up the streets, balance the budget and get the city back on track offered a welcome change from an incumbent who had allowed the budget deficit to soar and the downtown civic center to deteriorate into a campground for vagrants. To Jordan's credit, he has pretty much done what he promised. FORTUNE magazine last week chose the San Francisco Bay Area as the best city in the U.S.--and the second best in the world--for business. But despite his successes, San Francisco still has plenty...
More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were hurt, five critically, when a covered wooden deck at a campground near the site of a St. Louis-area concert collapsed, apparently under the weight of hundreds of youths seeking shelter from rain. Earlier, two fans were found dead at the campground, possibly from drug-related causes. And a concert near Indianapolis was canceled after a crowd of unruly fans without tickets had to be quelled by riot police. --By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Nick Catoggio, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Alain L. Sanders, Anastasia Toufexis and Sidney Urquhart
...monster homes" has great zeal, there is a proposal to raise the amount of new development that must go for modest housing from 40% to 60%. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where a 14,000-sq.-ft., three-bedroom log cabin is going up, building inspector Dennis Johnson says a campground for low-wage earners might not be a bad idea...
...have. In exchange for turning a 63-acre lot into a 121,267-sq.-ft. store, they would pay the town $100,000 in annual taxes and cover much needed road improvements too. The store even agreed to spring for an archaeological dig on the site, once an Indian campground. "All people were thinking was, 'This is where I'm going to get cheap underwear,' " says resident Al Norman...
...just hunting and gathering, but being hunted and gathered. T. Rex had been gone for 60 million years when our progenitors came along, but there were saber-toothed tigers, lions, cougars, leopards, bears, wolves and wild boars waiting at the edge of every human settlement and campground...