Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...therapy has reputedly helped children, including those with learning disabilities, improve their reading skills because it trains the eyes to work together and scan the printed page quickly. Anita Seibert of Northridge, Calif., says the training helped her sons Matthew, 10, and Brandon, 7, both of whom had been having trouble reading and concentrating. "We tried everything, ophthalmologists, counselors," she says. After six months of therapy, the boys started "getting A's," Seibert reports...
...irony of the House's dilemma was reflected when Rep. Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), a pay raise defender, introduced the resolution to reject the increase--but voted against the resolution...
From the start, the House electronic tote board showed the adjournment motion, made by House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-Calif.), was losing...
...Castro Valley, Calif., Dick Bash, owner of a store named Combat Arms, reports that he is overwhelmed by demand, largely from gun fanciers who fear that the Purdy massacre might at last prod legislators into taking some serious steps to control the sale of guns. Says he: "There is an arms race on, all right. People are rushing to buy guns before the government takes them away...
...challenged. Based on an unprecedented long-term study of the effects of divorce, psychologist Judith Wallerstein has found that a disturbingly large number of youngsters are suffering the consequences many years after the family breakup. Says Wallerstein, director of the Center for the Family in Transition in Corte Madera, Calif.: "Almost half of children of divorces enter adulthood as worried, underachieving, self-deprecating and sometimes angry young men and women...