EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Clock ticks for L.A. Time is running out for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. city officials to come up with an alternative to extending a five-year contract to dump at Sunshine Canyon. Big spenders DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection General Manager Ron Deaton has a spiffy spiffy - /spi'fee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" This was common mainstream slang during the 1940s. 2. little perk that goes along with his leadership of the city-owned utility: authority to spend $100 million in ratepayers' money each year without the oversight of anyone else. Pricey pipe dream The subway to the sea would cost nearly $5 billion, take decades to complete and would suck up most of the region's transportation funds. It's hardly the best use of money. Grand-iose failure The LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) is in the process of building another monument to failure with the new performing-arts high school project on Grand Avenue. |
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