Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Orville R. Kiehn El Sobrante, Calif...
...Benes Pacific Grove, Calif...
...first round of ads mirrored Reagan's optimism and capitalized on the country's economic health and blush of patriotism. In leafy Anytown, U.S.A. (filmed partly in Santa Rosa, Calif.), shots of blond moppets getting haircuts mingled with those of home-towners hoisting flags and school bands parading down sun-dappled streets. In the campaign's closing days, the commercials focused on Reagan, bathed in natural light and looking relaxed. His voice was soft, his pitch distinctly presidential...
...were in stocks, you went down even further," said Stanford Treasure Ronald Adams. Stanford's $1 billion endowment lost about 1 percent over the year, and Adams said the Palo Alto, Calif, university made money only on real estate, venture capital and foreign equality investments...
...solar system may be common in the Milky Way. In a new, highly detailed photograph of Beta Pictoris, a neighborly 293 trillion miles from the sun, Bradford Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson and Richard Terrile of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have discovered that the star is encircled by a dim disc of gas and solid particles. The astronomers believe that those particles may be the signs of newborn planets and worlds in formation. The spectacular image is the first visual evidence of another solar system, raising the possibility that extraterrestrial life may some...