Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle is most intense in Charleston, W. Va. On July 15, Charleston will become the first U.S. city to be technically capable of offering all phone users a choice of long-distance carriers. In August, Alameda, Calif., will become the second city to offer the option. Up to now, only people with Touch-Tone or modified dial phones could use a long-distance company other than A T & T, a technical limitation that excluded the 40% with old-style rotary dials...
Though they still cannot be considered economy vehicles, new motor homes are more fuel efficient than earlier models. Riverside, Calif.-based Fleetwood, the industry leader with 20% of the market, cut excess weight and restyled exteriors to make its RVs more aerodynamic and squeeze more miles out of a gallon of fuel. The company's 27-footers now get 15 m.p.g. on the highway at 50 m.p.h., twice the mileage of a decade ago. Winnebago (1983 sales: $239 million) developed a front-wheel-drive model powered by a Renault diesel engine. One version, called the LeSharo, gets...
...Harvard men's rugby club that had to finance its own way to the national championships in Monterey, Calif, last month, became Cambridge's springtime darlings...
...Jersey school keeps secret how much each manager has and how well each is doing, and doesn't let the seven interact. About 60 percent of the portfolio is in stocks, and the managers come from as far away as Pasadena, Calif, and Boston. Princeton has done the best of the major universities over the last five years, with an annual average growth of about 19 percent...
...Palo Alto, Calif, school now enjoys a totally computerized card catalogue system known as SOCRATES, and UT hopes to phase in a similar system next year. "I think that probably within one year we'll have some small part of it available," says a UT library official. "In my mind, Harvard's is the example of how it should be done--you build up your database first and get all holdings into a sensible format like the Distributable Union Catalogue, and then you figure out how to make it accessible...