Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider the case of Garth Conlan, a vegetable and strawberry grower in Castroville, Calif., who walked into a Wells Fargo branch in 1981 to borrow $3 million. The bankers, eager for business, approved the loan in 48 hours, Conlan's attorneys say. Yet two years later, when Wells Fargo decided that losses from Conlan's 1,505-acre farm exceeded the limit in the loan contract, the bank refused to lend him more money and grabbed $120,000 from another of his accounts to pay off the debt. Those moves forced him into bankruptcy, his attorneys say. So the farmer...
...difficult, however, to explain the case of Louie Nassaney of Van Nuys, Calif., a robust 33-year-old who has defied doctors who told him in May 1983 that he had AIDS and would live for only three to six months. Today, even though he has Kaposi's sarcoma, tires easily and suffers from diarrhea, Nassaney works out for two hours in the gym three times a week, skis and plays racquetball. He shuns all prescription medicines, relying instead on a regimen of eight to twelve grams of vitamin C a day, garlic and herbs. His routine includes acupuncture...
...million parasitic worms at $14.95 a bargain? Biosys, a Palo Alto, Calif., firm thinks so: last month it began selling packages of nearly microscopic nematodes through home-garden catalogs under the name BioSafe. The company hopes to become a leader in the emerging market for environmentally safe pesticides. The worms kill insects by taking up residence inside the pests' bloodstreams but are harmless to humans, pets, birds and plants. So safe is the product, says Biosys, that it is exempt from the Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide regulations. The company hopes the safety assurance will help push annual sales...
...produced this week's cover stories on the Walt Disney kingdom of movies, theme parks and consumer goods, the assignment was like returning to the clean, gentle, well-ordered world that every kid wants to believe in. Correspondent Elaine Dutka, who spent several weeks at Disney headquarters in Burbank, Calif., found that the grownups who run the realm want to believe too. On a Sunday outing that she and Koepp took to Disneyland with Michael Eisner, the company's chief executive, Eisner detected a minute flaw in the facade of It's a Small World, checked out a new menu...
...that took up space and slowed performance. The advocates of RISC, declaring that it was time to go back to basics, stripped away the nonessentials and optimized the performance of the 50 or so most frequently used commands. Says Ben Anixter, vice president at Advanced Micro Devices, a Sunnyvale, Calif., firm that is introducing its first RISC chip in two weeks: "It is like going from the complicated old piston airplane engine to the turbojet...