Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Airman First Class Bruce Ott, 25, earned a military salary of just $817 a month, he sat down with an insurance agent in Yuba City, Calif., some three weeks ago to discuss how to invest a windfall of $200,000 that he expected to get. Ott, a clerk at Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, and a newlywed, said he would soon be collecting $165,000 from the sale of a business, and spoke of $40,000 more that he might receive--for openers. Said the agent: "He implied he had a well that wasn't going...
...them stories. About 1 million of the bears have been sold at a price of $60 or more. But Teddy has been suffering some breakdowns. Many customers and retailers have complained, and about 35,000 Ruxpins have been returned to stores or the manufacturer, Worlds of Wonder of Fremont, Calif. The company, though, maintains that the percentage of defective Teddys is below the industry norm and that the newest bears have been improved...
Across the nation, people groped for words. "It exploded," murmured Brian French, a senior at Concord High School in New Hampshire, as the noisy auditorium fell quiet. A classmate, Kathy Gilbert, turned to him and asked, "Is that really where she was?" At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., scientists turned away from their remarkable new photographs of the distant planet Uranus and stared, stunned, at the telecast from Florida. "We all knew it could happen one day," said one, "but, God, who would have believed...
...electrical engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Jarvis earned a master's degree in engineering from Northeastern University in Boston. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1969, became a specialist in tactical communications satellites at the Air Force Space Division in El Segundo, Calif., and rose to the rank of captain. During his time in the service, he worked on advanced tactical communications satellites. He left the Air Force in 1973 to join the Hughes Aircraft Co. as an engineer. There, Jarvis was again working on the design of advanced satellites when NASA asked...
Balding and athletic, Jarvis lived with his wife Marcia in a sunny lemon- yellow house six blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach, Calif. He passed his spare hours practicing classical guitar, playing squash and, of course, bicycling. Five summers ago, he and Marcia spent the summer touring Canada on a tandem bicycle...