Word: megalopolitan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record day for disaster, even by the standards of megalopolitan Los Angeles. Early in the morning, Pasadena police cornered two terrorists in a catering office at the Rose Bowl, site of the Olympic soccer matches. A traffic snarl brought two major freeways to a steamy standstill, and a landslide smothered a chunk of the Pacific Coast Highway. During the Olympic cycling event, a section of bleachers at the Dominguez Hills velodrome collapsed, injuring 50 people. By day's end Angelenos had survived a bomb scare and a raging brushfire...