Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caring for patients, nurses have sought alternative methods to drugs for easing suffering. We follow the advice of Margo McCaffery, the pain pioneer, who said, "Pain is whatever the person experiencing it says it is, and exists whenever he or she says it exists." Gina Holmes Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...Information Services in Orange, Calif., the largest credit-reporting agency in the U.S., keeps credit histories of some 90 million Americans. Access to its files is gained with a computer password, actually a number code. Last week TRW officials confirmed that an account password had been filched from one of its creditor subscribers, a West Coast Sears store. It was then posted on so-called electronic bulletin boards, which almost any computer enthusiast can hook into through phone lines...
...here before 1982. In addition, a national commission will be appointed to study the impact of factors such as Third World poverty and the agriculture industry's dependence on undocumented workers on the immigration dilemma. This was originally part of an alternative bill sponsored by Edward R. Roybal (D-Calif.), designed to examine possible long-term and international solutions...
With an annual income of just $24,336, Armand Quiros, 58, and his wife Lois of Santa Barbara, Calif., had given up hope of ever owning a home in their neighborhood, where the average price is $191,768. But last week they broke ground on a new two-bedroom duplex, thanks to Homes for People, a private nonprofit agency that locates low-interest loans and inexpensive materials for people willing to contribute labor to the construction of their houses. The Quiros family will put in 16 hours a week: he doing carpentry and general cleanup, she as a volunteer worker...
DIED. Meredith Willson, 82, The Music Man's music man, who wrote book, score and lyrics for the durable 1957 Broadway salute to small-town simplicity and sentiment, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960), also a hit; in Santa Monica, Calif...