EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past weekL.A.'s new song Having averted a·vert tr.v. a·vert·ed, a·vert·ing, a·verts 1. To turn away: avert one's eyes. 2. its swan song by crushing secession with fear tactics, Los Angeles' downtown power structure is singing a new refrain: This is your town - you should fix it! L.A.'s looming looming: see mirage. crisis The state budget mess in Sacramento will soon create a budget mess in 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 Hall - and a test of city leaders' real priorities. Valley oversight After decades of City Hall's neglect, the Valley desperately needs more opportunities and investment, not more neglect, which is about all it got out of Mayor James Hahn's publicly financed Asia junket. Rampart, post-mortem There are some valuable lessons to be learned from the overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. but tragic Rampart scandal, chief among them the need for officers to obey the law as stringently as they enforce it, and the importance of not tarring Tarring can refer to one of the following:
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