Word: cal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggle for a slice of the low-cal market, Anheuser-Busch has not fared so well. The company's first two light beers, Natural Light and Michelob Light, have proved only moderately popular. Undeterred, the firm is spending some $50 million this year to launch yet a third reduced-calorie entry, Budweiser Light. Claims Anheuser-Busch President Dennis Long: "We are starting to see some chinks in Miller Lite's armor...
...store (open by appointment only). "I wanted to make something so American. I wanted to design a gun that people who hate guns would want to have and touch and play with because it's so pretty." So he had a leather handgrip fashioned for a .38-cal. Colt revolver at his workshop in Florence, inlaid the cylinder with 56 grams of 24-karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case embossed with the customer's name. Bijan's own signature is engraved in gold on the shank...
Some states have decided they cannot afford to wait for federal action. California, for example, has just passed a bill that will require state officials to choose the lowest-cost health care for Medi-Cal (Medicaid) recipients. The law will permit private health insurers to do the same for their subscribers. As a result, next year California Medi-Cal patients may be restricted in choosing their doctors and hospitals. William A. Guy, who administers the Medi-Cal watchdog program, sums up his task bluntly. Says he: "Hospitals are a major part of the cost. The issue is how to hold...
...more practical level, the Congressional initiative effectively discriminates against poor students. Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Cal,) and others have argued that the amendment would allow wealthy undergraduates who could attend college without federal assistance to continue to ingore draft registration, while poor students would either have to start signing up or lose their financial aid. Though characteristically cautious, Harvard's General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said last week. "It is a mistake to link distinct needs with social responsibility...
...Oldsmobile. The car had smashed into a small tree, and at first it appeared that she, and the nine-month fetus she was carrying, had died in an auto accident. X rays revealed, however, that her right eyelid had been closed over a bullet hole made by a .32-cal. slug as it was fired into her brain. Investigators in La Grange then built a case of murder-for-hire against her husband Larry, his girlfriend Denise Lambert and three local hoods enlisted with the alleged help of Heath's brother Jerry. Though Jerry has yet to be tried...