Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright, safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in a Chinese restaurant
...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright, i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in one of the neighborhood's numerous Chinese restaurants...
...retiring after five terms. Riordan represents a strong turn toward the moderate Republican right, the result of a backlash against last year's traumatic riots and the city's relentless crime. He played the law-and-order angle to the hilt, arguing that jobs too depend on safe streets because "no business wants to come into a war zone...
...Michael Woo, a liberal Democrat endorsed by Clinton. Riordan will succeed five-term Mayor Tom Bradley, who was elected by a bi-racial coalition that Woo had hoped would carry him to office as well. Riordan's base is among white voters attracted by his promise to make L.A. safe and thus create jobs. "Businesses do not want to come into a war zone," he said after his victory. Turnout was high -- helped along slightly by the state Democratic Party's offer of free doughnuts to anyone who voted...
...seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...