Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very eclectic eater," says Terry Johnston, as she nibbles her way through doll-size portions, of stuffed mushrooms, marinated beans, and potato salad with capers at the tapas restaurant in the Broadway department store in Glendale, Calif. "I've been to Spain," Johnston confides, "and this is a bit of nostalgia." For Don Kenway, the store's vice president for food services, offering tapas in a department-store setting is a gamble. He is pleased with the progress the small cafe has made since it opened in December. "It's an educational process," he says. "Some people confuse Spanish food...
...years ago but have been sold almost exclusively to police departments and other institutions. Within a month, though, Prescott Technologies plans to sell the BreathScan for $1.59 in supermarkets, pharmacies and liquor stores nationwide. A competing product, the 15-Second Driver's Test from Luckey Laboratories in San Bernardino, Calif., may soon be widely available...
Reagan's predecessors were just as profoundly and regionally American, of course: Johnson the Texan, Nixon from Whittier, Calif., Carter from south Georgia. But their pasts were all shadowed, in different ways, by an obscure sense of biographical hurt. Reagan's father was an improvident alcoholic in Dixon, Ill., and yet Reagan's mythic hometown America is a glorious place. Reagan communicates a bright and triumphant American past...
...decade. Manhattan's swank Pierre Hotel has seen a 20% increase in its wedding business over the past five years. Many couples are opting for "weekend weddings": multi-event affairs that stretch the ceremonies and attendant celebrations into a three-day party. VIP Fantasy Locations in Marina del Ray, Calif., gets 25 calls a day inquiring about wedding rentals of its 88-ft. yacht, Sundowner. An "Affordable Fantasy" on- board wedding is $5,500, and a "Cloud Nine" prices out at $9,999, which includes the cost of 99 white pigeons sent heavenward at an appropriately celebratory moment...
...Edwards, D-Calif., the chairman of the House civil rights subcommittee, said that the high court "recognizes that in order to get beyond racism and sexism, we often must take race and sex into consideration. It's both silly and naive to think that we live in a color-and gender-blind society that would allow the passive policies of the Justice Department to work...