Word: parked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political problem with a painfully human face. Unlike the arcane theories of Star Wars or the complex calculations of the budget deficit, homelessness is no abstraction. The homeless confront urban dwellers every day: sleeping on sidewalks and park benches, begging pedestrians for loose change, huddling in doorways for shelter or meandering the streets muttering to themselves. In cities that have flourished during the Reagan years, there are more homeless today than at any time since the Great Depression...
...everyone shops all the time in Flemington. The town's park benches are crowded with bargain widowers -- husbands who drowse in the sunshine while their wives continue the hunt. Fathers of young children often elect to take a ride on the historic Black River and Western Railroad, an aging three-car train that rambles some eleven miles through the woodlands to Ringoes, N.J., and back five times...
...Grande, a marble obelisk with the number 258 marks the Pacific boundary of the frontier. On the U.S. side of the wire-mesh fence, this one corroded by the sea air, sanitation workers are emptying trash cans set about the neatly cut lawns of a small park. On the Mexican side of the fence an eroded gully is filled with garbage. What was once the Playa Azul restaurant is drunkenly toppling sideways, its concrete supports undermined...
...Harvard cross country teams gained a split decision yesterday at Franklin Park in Boston at the annual Harvard--Yale--Princeton tri-meet...
Elion, 70, a New York City native, and Hitchings, 83, born in Hoquiam, Wash., are affiliated with Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park...