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City of Los Angeles officials are finally confronting a question that has seemed too big to answer: How much would it actually cost to get every person living on the street today indoors and make sure that no one languished there for years again?

Then, as if the former president’s wish had come true, the project languished for months without a distributor.

Martinez languished on the market until the Mets signed him to a one-year, $12-million deal less than a week before the season began.

The Raman-Krekorian proposal for an independent redistricting commission languished for nearly a year.

"We hope this gives finality to a case that's languished for decades, re-victimising Ms Gayle's family," Parson said in a statement.