Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bowen got pushed out into lane three and sixth place [in the 800] in the back stretch with 250 meters to go," McConnon said. "He managed to run everybody but the leader down for second at the end of the race...
...long as they remain war zones ruled by fear, inhabited only by those with no choice. If what passes for safety in U.S. cities could be assured, it may be possible to again attract working people to public housing. "Besides the crime," says Chicago Housing Authority head Vince Lane, "there's the problem that those who can leave do. Few if any role models are left. Unless working folks live here -- people whose example can show what real life is -- we'll keep failing...
...Ideally, Lane would bulldoze the projects and disperse their residents to "normal communities." But "no one wants the poor in their neighborhoods," he says, "so that won't happen." The next best hope rests with the quiet revolution launched last week by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros. Rejecting calls to reserve public housing for the poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend...
...Angeles Times -- stalled in the break-down lane...
...fawning profiles commissioned by the glossy magazines that depend on him for ads. As a rich, handsome man he is a big target, though, and the arrival of a tell-all expose like Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein, by Steven Gaines and Sharon Churcher (Birch Lane Press; $22.50), was almost inevitable. The authors do not fawn -- they revel in describing the people Klein copied, the deals he made, the collaborators he turned against. Above all, they dwell on his heavy drug use and bisexuality...