Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raising the cost of fuel to consumers. To many executives, that is wrongheaded reliance on Government fiat. The emphasis, they think, should be put on increasing production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by granting energy companies more incentives. David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., a maker of measuring instruments, says with a snort that Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who put the program together, "doesn't have the brains God granted a goose about the way the economic system is supposed to work...
Congress will begin discussing legislation this month which may change all that. Rep. Barry Gold water Jr. (R-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Koch(D-N.Y.) are filing bills to revise the Buckley Amendment, part of a 1974 law that guarantees students access to their educational records...
Colvin could not help much. He focused his case simply on the interests of his client, Allan Bakke of Sunnyvale, Calif, a tall, blond engineer and father of two, who at 37 still harbors hopes of starting medical school. Bakke is largely a mystery to the world, for he has consistently refused requests for interviews. He earned two engineering degrees and fought as a Marine captain in Viet Nam, then decided to change careers. He started working as a hospital volunteer and taking science courses at night. In 1973 he applied to a dozen medical schools. By then...
...Spain from England after a successful tour climaxed by a sellout performance at London's Palladium. The tour, he told reporters in Madrid, had been a reassuring test of his recovery from the back injury he got last March when he fell from the stage in Pasadena, Calif., during a celebration of his 50th year in show business...
...base of the brain. But how? Leading separate and often hotly competing teams, Polish-born Andrew Schally, 50, at Tulane University and the VA hospital in New Orleans, and French-born Roger Guillemin, 53, then at Baylor University and now at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., isolated, identified and synthesized three separate hormones-"releasing factors"-by which the hypothalamus directs the release of key hormones from the pituitary...