Word: berkeley
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...because there would not be enough cash to keep the economy running smoothly. If the price was set too high, it could cause more inflation, because the gold would have created too much cash and credit. Roy Jastram, a professor of business administration at the University of California at Berkeley, has studied the world prices of gold and other commodities going back to 1560. He concluded that the historic price of gold, in relation to the prices of those other products, would now be about $250 per oz. Some gold bugs, though, insist that the price under a new gold...
...have their loved ones preserved-sued Cryonics Executive Robert Nelson and Mortician Joseph Klockgether. Nelson who runs a TV repair business, insisted that customers realized he was engaged in nonprofit research and made no guarantees. The jury was unconvinced, and awarded the relatives a cool $928,594. In Berkeley, Calif., President Arthur Quaife of Trans Time Inc., who claims that his is the nation's only surviving cryonic suspension firm (ten patients on ice), said that cryonics still has a "great future...
...reasoned Ray Cummings, 60, a murderer serving a life term at California's San Quentin Prison. When authorities turned down Cummings' request for occasional 48-hour visits from his girlfriend Susan, who is in her late 20s, he went to court. His attorney, Don Specter of Berkeley, argues that the state is not entitled "to decide who your loved ones are and whom you are to spend time with in prison." So far, two courts have responded unromantically. A more promising solution would seem to be marriage, but Cummings, who lived with Susan for seven years before...
...This development is going to take years and years of major tests." But the Berkeley, Calif, company is still moving ahead...
Still playing at the club level, the rugby team turned in a season that would make the folks at the Athletic Department proud, winning the Ivies, the New Englands, the Easterns, and then finishing second at the Nationals behind Cal-Berkeley...