Word: playa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Guerrero, some 200 miles southwest of Mexico City. Fortunately, the affected states are sparsely populated, and their rocky underpinnings provided some resistance to the tremors. Still, at least 150 people were reported killed in Jalisco and 30 in Michoacan, where two hotels were leveled at the resort of Playa Azul. The toll along the coast, too, seemed certain to rise...
...number one doubles pair had playa nearly two and a half hours the day before against Penn and won in three sets. The match against Columbia was a test of stamina and physical conditioning...
...Hughes Aircraft Co., a major defense contractor once owned by the late Howard Hughes. Together with his pretty second wife Rita, a Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis. One of his neighbors there was Polish-born Marian Zacharski, 29, an affable, fast-climbing executive of the Chicago-based Polish-American Machinery Corp. Since both men enjoyed tennis and watching their children play...
...Summa real estate holdings are a potential jackpot. The company owns 29,000 acres in Nevada; only the Federal Government has more land in the state. Summa is about to sell 12,000 acres in Tucson and is sitting on an additional 1,200 acres in the affluent Playa del Rey section of Los Angeles...