Word: coliseums
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...gets worse. Entire organizations are bargaining to get out. The Raiders, who have been reluctant tenants in the mostly empty Coliseum ever since they arrived from Oakland, have examined the ruins following January's earthquake and have gone looking for a site far from the San Andreas Fault and the dangerous parking in South Central Los Angeles. Davis, their leader, was said to be consideringwas too expensive...
...figuring out what withstood the tremors, what didn't and why. Even last week there was still much new evidence of damage to sift through. The University of Southern California's children's hospital had to be evacuated because of structural defects, and it was suggested that the L.A. Coliseum, site of two Olympic Games and home of the Raiders, would have to be torn down. As it turned out, the stadium may well be salvageable -- with $35 million in repairs...
...killing two wounded soldiers left behind. Dodging explosions, the Georgians zigzagged past overgrown oleander bushes and neglected vineyards toward the comparative safety of downtown Sukhumi. As they dragged Bagaturia through the former resort, once one of the Black Sea's most idyllic vacation spots and now a bombed-out coliseum where Georgians and Abkhazians are locked in combat, an old woman cried out, "How are things out there? Is the enemy advancing? What will become of us?" The soldiers had no answer...
...sophisticated, this is likely to be the biggest theatrical event of the year. After playing to more than 600,000 people in 1991 and 1992, it is projected to reach up to a million in 31 cities in the U.S. and Mexico, in such venues as Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum this week and Milwaukee's Mecca next week. Sales have been slowish, although the opening-night audience offered a standing ovation and sustained applause...
...surprise is that it's Larry Nance, not Larry Bird, who in unassuming fashion is responsible for a lot of excitement in the series that's tied 2-2 going into tonight's game at Richfield Coliseum...