Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amid the euphoria of Republican victories, Stockman was asked, "What are you going to do now?"and he joked, "Go to Disneyworld." Well, Washington is a certain kind of theme park that newcomers enter at their own risk. Old immunities disappear as members are forced to take positions and cast votes, providing the very specifics to voters and potential opponents they so carefully avoided this campaign. Unless overnight sensations like Stockman and Frist perform sensationally, they may find the broom that swept the old coots out of office ready to be used again...
...Strip for four hours without getting a single offer. "I was wearing jeans, which were dirty, and I was carrying my backpack, so I guess I didn't look right," she says. Down to her last $7, she bought a doughnut for dinner and spent the night on a park bench. Unable to afford even a cheap miniskirt, she sat down in an alley and pulled out her spare blue jeans. After carefully marking off a line just below the crotch, she cut off both pant legs using the saw blade of her Swiss Army knife, a gift from...
Temporary shelter is harder to find. Stephen Knight of the Los Angeles Free Clinic estimates that there are fewer than 200 shelter beds for youths in all of Hollywood. For every kid accommodated, another is turned away. The alternatives are grim: squats, park benches, alleys, an adult theater that allows youths to sleep in seats for a few dollars if they can bear the noise...
...Francisco a 15-year-old boy named John curls up under a big oak tree in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park whenever he has to cry. It is usually about once a month, late in the evening after too much cheap wine. He pulls his black leather jacket over his head and presses his knees against his chest, under cover because he cannot be seen crying in Golden Gate Park. There are too many other homeless people looking for any advantage...
...addition to the Broadway-York St. project, Yale has invested $12.5 million in the $108 million retail and residential project in Ninth Square. That area has been hard hit in the past two years by the closure of Macy's New Haven department store and the now-bankrupt Park Plaza hotel...