Word: venturas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Children abandoned physically or emotionally by their parents look elsewhere for companionship, acceptance and values. Odell Edwards, a 20-year-old serving time in a Ventura, Calif., juvenile facility for attempted murder and other offenses, recalls that by the age of 14 he was spending most of his time away from home and hanging out with a group of friends that he called his "homeboys." Says Edwards: "I never really had anyone to talk to. My father was gone. I had no one to turn to when I was in trouble, except my homeboys. They became my family...
...highways should have extra lanes or wider shoulders so that broken-down or damaged cars, which trigger about 60% of bumper-to-bumper slowdowns, can get out of the way. In the northern suburbs of Los Angeles, planners are studying ways to build a double-decker section of the Ventura Freeway...
...women because of community opposition and "irrational prejudice." In recent years 37 states have passed laws removing zoning restrictions on group homes in single-family neighborhoods. That has not stopped people from torching homes for the mentally handicapped in middle-class cities such as Hewlett, N.Y., and Ventura, Calif. Even poor people do not necessarily want to live near their troubled brethren. In New York City's predominantly Hispanic East Harlem, a homeless shelter for 48 families was withdrawn in January after intense opposition...
...team, and he likes it that way." The police, of course, do not, and the buoyant banditry of skateboarding can lead the law a merry chase. "To skateboard you've got to be aggressive, and you've got to be a little crazy," says Roger Mullen, 17, of Ventura, Calif. Law officers get heated up over potential noise, traffic, safety and property violations. Explains Mark Wynn, 12, who skates in Atlanta: "Cops always think you're tearing up places, and they're wrong . . . well, sorta." Police policy about skaters seems to have only one common denominator: chase 'em. In Chicago...
Last week their long legal battle ended in triumph. State Farm agreed to pay $420,822 each to Kraszewski and two other plaintiffs: Wilda Tipton, 45, of Ventura, Calif., and the estate of Daisy Jackson, who died in 1983. The settlement calls for possible payments of $15,575 to $420,822 to other women who applied for 1,113 sales-agent jobs in California during the past 13 1/2 years. State Farm believes the settlement will cost no more than $50 million, but the plaintiffs' attorney estimates that the bill will be as high as $300 million. That would make...