official
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For drivers, the Co-op Live offers official venue parking, to be booked in advance, and there are also several commercial car parks within walking distance.
From BBC
The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
Under state law, such weapons are not considered deadly, and a person carrying them is considered unarmed; but department officials argued that they are “visually indistinguishable from real firearms in rapidly escalating situations.”
From Los Angeles Times
The greater the number of cell towers in the area, the greater the accuracy, enabling officials to monitor movements more closely with data from the cellphone carrier.
From Los Angeles Times
“But because he’s an elected official, the victims still have to see him wield power. That’s the injustice here.”
From Los Angeles Times
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