Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moore tried to shoot Gerald Ford in San Francisco. The Symbionese Liberation Army was nurtured there. Dan White, the baked-potato vendor and former city supervisor, shot and killed Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in city hall. Every couple of weeks or so, someone leaps off the Golden Gate Bridge into the deep blue sea. The city suicide rate is half again as high as the nation...
...that can be peeled or added as the sun goes in and out. San Francisco fog does not arrive on little cat's feet. It sluices toward the city from the Pacific Ocean in low, thick clouds that frequently obscure all but the top posts of the Golden Gate Bridge. A local radio announcer once described the approach of a summer fog as "seeing God out there in the ocean with a Reddi-Wip can in his hands...
...singles to Union Street 15 years ago, is still worth a scan, and Rocker Boz Scaggs has opened a bar and country-cookin' restaurant across the street. A couple of blocks west on Fillmore, there are chance encounters aplenty at the Balboa Cafe and the new Golden Gate Grill...
...biggest party will be Monday night, when 10,000 delegates, alternates and guests will move directly from the official proceedings to Pier 45, near Fisherman's Wharf, for an extravaganza dubbed "Oh, What a Night." Amid miniature replicas of Telegraph Hill's Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Park's Japanese tea garden, Ghirardelli Square and 13 other San Francisco landmarks, conventioneers will wander among open bars and mountains of ethnic foodstuffs from 9 p.m. to midnight in an area the size of four football fields. The $250,000 fandango, paid for by private and corporate donors...
...recognizing TV as a threat to gate receipts, the National Collegiate Athletic Association created a "television plan" that gave it exclusive control of all college football broadcasts, a control that is now measured in big money. For 1982-85, the N.C.A.A. negotiated $281 million worth of TV deals covering its 509 members that have intercollegiate football teams. Contracts with ABC and CBS contained numerous restrictions designed to spread the wealth. For example, they guaranteed television appearances to both large and small schools, established limits on the number of games that could be broadcast, barred any team from appearing more than...