Word: tacoma
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...conference attracted a few mayors who have made political history, including Norm Rice of Seattle and John Daniels of New Haven, both the first Black mayors of their respective cities, and Karen Vialle of Tacoma, Wash., and Martha Wood of Winston-Salem, N.C., both the first female mayors of their cities...
...style of some of Seattle's suburbs. With that has come a tendency to tar California with guilt by association -- for damage to the environment, for fast-talking wheeling and dealing, and for the drug trafficking among offshoots of Los Angeles gangs in the blue-collar districts of Tacoma. California has also become a political buzz word. "Any candidate can get a rise out of his audience just by mentioning the bugaboo of 'Los Angelization,' " says Doug Jewett, one of the contenders in this week's mayoral election. One successful antigrowth candidate used the slogan "If You Don't Want...
...Jersey and on his way to Florida. "We're talking about getting out. Building a little house, a little boat. Soon." John, who last made a living recycling cans, was lured to Atlantic City by one of Trump's ads. "I'm going back to see my daughter in Tacoma. If I can ever get out of here," he says...
...only feeding a giraffe, but he's actually lunching with a source. Acacia branches in hand, Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth befriended Kito for this week's Living story on the renaissance of the American zoo. Over the course of eight weeks Willwerth petted a walrus in Tacoma, walked ankle deep in freezing snow in the company of several hundred penguins in San Diego and held (gingerly) a tarantula in Cincinnati...
...chilling detail. A paper trail of credit-card slips places Stevens in proximity to 17 of the Green River crime scenes. In addition to the 48 Green River murders, the affidavit suggests, Stevens may also be responsible for at least a dozen other killings in Seattle, Portland and Tacoma. Informants alleged that he carried photographs of mutilated women and frequented prostitutes. One source quoted him as saying that he worked with Seattle vice detectives and in the line of duty "often was involved in the torture of prostitutes." Stevens also reportedly said he would like to have a videotape...