Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most inner-city open space, the new 15,000-sq.-ft. Skid Row Park, just east of downtown Los Angeles, is littered with drunks and derelicts. But no one minds. The place was designed for them. The designers of the park, a Los Angeles firm called POD, Inc. (Process Oriented Design), have won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for their thoughtful and straightforward approach to a tough urban problem-combining a community park with a haven for bums...
...feel it is appropriate to see leaders when there is business to conduct and it is worth their time." Characteristically, he merely mentioned in passing a new project, rather simple by Bechtel standards, that the company had just announced: the construction of a $100 million company office building in downtown Oakland, Calif. -By Alexander L. Taylor HI. Reported by Bob Buderi and Joseph J. Kane/San Francisco
...Pope landed, while his jet was already well into its 16-hour flight from Rome to Argentina, crowds were still celebrating Malvinas Day. But the mood was already shifting from fatherland to Holy Father: a bent old lady fingered her Rosary at Our Lady of Mercy Church in the downtown district of Retire, praying both for the safety of her grandson in Port Stanley and for the Pontiffs safe arrival...
...suburbs have gone west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The movie stars, the affluent and much of the industry have moved along with them to Beverly Hills and Malibu. Left behind is the shell-streets still hugged by low buildings, as in some abandoned Midwestern downtown. Yet, even today, the name Hollywood retains its mystical appeal. In a sense the name and the place diverged long ago-the name symbolic of faded glamour; the place filled with the shiftless, the criminal and the crazy...
...fared far worse. Senior Journalist Li Guangyi, 64, was recently sentenced to five years in prison for "leaking important state secrets." Among them: the time, place and agenda of an upcoming meeting of the plenary session of the Communist Party Central Committee. Last month two European journalists browsing in downtown Peking's stamp mar ket were startled when two plain-clothes policemen emerged from the crowd of shoppers to arrest the dealer who had just sold them a $5 stamp. The dealer had probably defied an earlier warning not to sell to foreign customers...