Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mountain View, Calif...
...article on megacounties, the fast-growing, sprawling suburbs ((NATION, June 15)), failed to highlight one of the most frightening aspects of these neo-urban communities: their stultifying similarity to one another. With their flashy office buildings and cookie-cutter shopping malls, bars and theme restaurants, megacounties like Orange County, Calif., and Johnson County, Kans., are not only interchangeable, they are indistinguishable. I despair to think of a generation whose idea of local color is watering holes such as Houlihan's or TGI Friday...
...only touched the surface when you discussed "radical polarization" occurring in America's boomtowns. I can tell you that Orange County, Calif., epitomizes a community that harks back to old-style bigotry. Not only do the majority of residents practice discrimination against blacks, Jews, homosexuals and Hispanics, they believe in it. Unlike most California cities, Orange County is in a time warp. Its residents are living behind the Orange Curtain...
...group. Among the favorite treats of these young adults are the frozen fruit and juice bars, supermarket items made essentially of water and natural fruit chunks or juice. Sales of the bars jumped nearly 50% last year, to more than $300 million. Frozfruit, a small company based in Gardena, Calif., introduced the first frozen fruit bar nationally eight years ago. But the novelty did not catch on until Dole Food (1986 revenues: $1.7 billion), a division of Castle & Cooke, started selling its own fruit-juice bars three years ago. Frozfruit bars ($2.49 for a box of four) contain chunks...
Gerald Kennedy, a high school teacher in Truckee, Calif., first attributed his flagging energies to the extra stress at the end of the school year. Then he developed more severe symptoms, including blinding headaches and painful sensitivity to light. He found it increasingly difficult to stay awake. Says Kennedy: "It was all I could do to get up to go to the bathroom." He was not alone. In the nearby Lake Tahoe area, about 150 others reported similar complaints. Two years later Kennedy has yet to return to work. Says he: "If you push yourself...