Word: skid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most inner-city open space, the new 15,000-sq.-ft. Skid Row Park, just east of downtown Los Angeles, is littered with drunks and derelicts. But no one minds. The place was designed for them. The designers of the park, a Los Angeles firm called POD, Inc. (Process Oriented Design), have won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for their thoughtful and straightforward approach to a tough urban problem-combining a community park with a haven for bums...
...track, and on the turns you can see almost a quarter of the course. The public address system keeps up a faster commentary than any ABC announcer. On television, the cars seem to glide through the turns, accelerating smoothly into the straightaways. But the roaring machines actually skid through each turn and make sickening little sideways hops towards the wall No one was injured in this year's race, but it's easy to see how Gordon Smylie's car lost traction in a turn during qualifying. Medics used four separate ambulances to pick up the pieces...
...police officer who was involved in the arrest described the two suspects as "skid row bums who live on the street...
...Harvard women's basketball team continued its season-long skid last night, dropping its 19th game of the season to Northeastern...
...than the 15 percent he said he was shooting for, Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill, the only candidate not insisting he had won, was hard-pressed just to say he hadn't lost. With most observers allowing him only 5 to 10 percent, his campaign seems on the skid. In any event, all 3000 delegates selected will go to Springfield May 22 to suggest a Democratic gubernatorial nominee. The voice of the convention, however, is not binding. The official nominee will be decided in September by the primary...