Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...searched for quarries less tangible than the Titanic: Noah's Ark, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Between 1980 and 1983 he lavished $2 million on three elaborate Titanic expeditions, masterminded by Columbia University Marine Geologist William Ryan and Fred Spiess of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Using prototypes of the Knorr- Suroit sonar technology and submersible cameras, Ryan and Spiess mapped large swatches of ocean floor and took intriguing images of something that Grimm, at least, is convinced resembled the propeller of a ship. Computer enhancement of the pictures, he insists, seemed to show the faintest...
...finding a better-suited computer hookup. Deciding if performance meets expectations is accomplished by analyzing stocks. In July, Lewis, a former employee of InfoCorp, a market-research company, decided that many computer firms needed counseling but could ill afford the big firms' high fees. Working out of her Sunnyvale, Calif., home, she formed a mini- consulting agency, now located in Palo Alto. Her fees: $70 for 15 minutes and $50 for each additional quarter-hour. An entire day of counseling costs $1,000. Her 40 regular customers get cut rates...
...when the Government reclassified the gun as an automatic weapon in 1982, but the Daniels got around the restriction by marketing a $300 MAC-10 kit that could be used to build a rapid-fire pistol with parts available from another company. In June a grand jury in Fresno, Calif., indicted the Daniels and two others on charges of conspiring to manufacture and market the parts for making illegal automatic weapons and silencers...
...DIVAD cancellation will probably mean layoffs for many of the 1,900 workers at the Ford Aerospace plant in Newport Beach, Calif. Financial analysts expect the parent Ford Motor Co. to weather the loss of the contract. Meanwhile, the Army must search for a suitable replacement to take on the Sergeant York's intended air-defense duties. Said Weinberger: "A decision to cancel what is basically an ineffective system doesn't eliminate the need...
...former prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., Meese prides himself on being tough on crime. But two widely publicized cases have led to criticism that he is soft on well-connected criminals. In May the Justice Department accepted a settlement allowing the E.F. Hutton brokerage company to plead guilty to a massive check- kiting scheme, but declined to seek indictments of any of the firm's officers, although Hutton was fined $2 million. Meese has also had to defend the Justice Department's protection of Jackie Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss...