Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston for about $12 million and hired an appraiser to value them at twice their true worth. Then a Rogers associate bundled the inflated mortgages on the apartments into securities that were sold to savings banks and other investors. Bank of America investigators are looking into why its Inglewood, Calif., branch agreed to act as an agent for handling the payments...
...enlisted the aid of a favored if surprising ally: the bombardier beetle, a half-inch insect found near streams and ponds around the world. Their case is presented in a new book for children titled Bomby, the Bombardier Beetle, published by the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, Calif. Author Hazel May Rue, a retired schoolteacher, argues that the nature of the diminutive creature's defenses proves that it could not have evolved. It must have first appeared in its present form, she maintains, carefully prefabricated...
...actor who stars as Officer Andy Renko on TV's Hill Street Blues; and Debi Richter, 25, actress (and his longtime girlfriend) whose Hill Street character, Daryl Ann, married Renko in last season's windup episode; he for the second time, she for the first; in Malibu, Calif. Haid's best man was Actor Michael Warren, who as Renko's partner Bobby Hill also assisted in the TV nuptials...
...overdue slips. Others are purchasing microcomputers as a way of attracting new patrons. The most forward-looking are plugging their new terminals into computer networks and giving cardholders access to remote electronic data banks. "Libraries have to act fast," says David Nashelsky, senior librarian at the San Jose, Calif., public library. "In the future, a lot of information is going to be available only via computers...
...first electronic library bulletin board. The system, which lets people with home computers and modems dial into the library's Apple II, has logged 16,000 calls in three years, including requests for everything from book reviews to tips on pet care. A library bulletin board in San Bernardino, Calif., lists theater performances and city council meetings, as well as the phone numbers and addresses of local politicians. Library planners envision the day when a reader sitting at a branch-library terminal will be able to call up books and articles stored in computers all over the world...