Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hits the Santa Monica Freeway at rush hour. Currently, the rush-hour (What a misnomer!) speed on downtown freeways is 15 to 18 m.p.h., according to a study by the University of Southern California. By the year 2000 the speed is expected to drop to 5 to 8 m.p.h. There are 3.3 million commuters every morning and evening here, some 75% of them driving in cars by themselves. There were 500,000 cars in Los Angeles in 1924. By 1940 there were 1 million, and the region boasted it had one car for every three residents, while behind-the-times...
...about her health, children, previous marriages (Feinstein and one husband had divorced; a second had died) and finances. "They messed up my Sunday," Blum complained with mock seriousness. "They wanted to know everything all the way back to kindergarten." On Monday the aides spent 14 hours at Blum's downtown office, scouring financial records. Blum ordered sandwiches sent in so reporters would not spot the Mondale...
Currently on the firm's drawing boards or under construction are a courthouse for Bade County, in suburban Miami; a $150 million office-hotel-retail center in downtown Miami; a bank in Peru; a shopping center near Dallas; high-rise buildings for San Antonio and Manhattan; and several town-house clusters in Houston. One completed ten-unit group of the Houston town houses looks, characteristically, like something put together by a gifted child with an oversize Lego toy set: white triangular roofs, extruding yellow strips and even more extruding blue boxes. The houses are designed to provide young urban...
...Olympic version of mission control is a draped cubicle deep in Piper Technical Center, a city-owned warehouse and heliport in downtown Los Angeles. Once the Games begin, representatives of all the law-enforcement agencies involved will staff the Pentagon-designed nerve center round the clock. Five large screens will project an array of security information, like the size of a traffic jam or the location of a hostage incident. Says Commander William Rathburn of the Los Angeles police department (L.A.P.D.), who will oversee the operation: " A civilian security coordination effort of this magnitude has never before been undertaken...
...Jazz deal caps a string of Khashoggi investments in Salt Lake City. The state's conservative political and social environment appeals to the Khashoggi family, which during the past decade has pumped $77 million into an array of Salt Lake City development projects, including a $600 million downtown office complex called Triad Center...