Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Santa Barbara, Calif. On Thursday night the glowing pair will be , posing again, this time on the podium in Dallas as thousands of cameras capture the political moment of the week...
Brent White Newhall, Calif...
...survey of millionaires by two professors at the University of Georgia showed that the most frequently held credit card in that group is not American Express or Diners Club but the Sears card. One of the first customers of the financial center at the Sears store in Cupertino, Calif., in the heart of the Silicon Valley, was a man who opened a $ 1.9 million account at Dean Witter Reynolds, the stockbroker that Sears bought in 1981. At the other end of the scale, a third of American households earning less than $10,000 are Sears customers too. Sears studies show...
Sears was already in the money business through its credit operation and its Allstate Insurance division, which was founded in 1931, as well as a Sears Savings Bank in Glendale, Calif. But the new subsidiaries put Sears squarely into the mad swirl of financial services. Sears intends to compete not only with banks like Citicorp and Chase Manhattan but also with Merrill Lynch and American Express in offering services like lending and selling stock. Last year the Sears financial-services divisions earned $703 million...
...child star in the 1950s with Johnny Otis' blues show, but whose lifelong battle against drugs turned her career into a series of retirements and comebacks punctuated by hits like Release Me (1962) and What a Difference a Day Makes (1975); of liver and kidney disease; in Torrance, Calif. Appearing with the Beatles on British TV in 1965, she was acknowledged by them as a major innovative force in rock 'n' roll. Her death came only three weeks after that of Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton, a rip-roaring blues shouter who also had a profound influence...