Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swells to 35,000 when the snow is on the trails from Thanksgiving through mid-April. Six years ago, studio apartments in the Lichenhearth condominium complex sold for $30,000; today, these 675-sq.-ft. jewel boxes go for $175,000. Last year Jay Kuhne, a California real estate man, parted with $275,000 for his three-bedroom town house condo on the Aspen Club grounds; this year the unit is selling for $675,000. Prices are rising by the month. A studio with sleeping alcove that changed hands at $125,000 in January is now priced...
...will learn to think of ourselves, our personalities, as an orchestra of chemical voices in our heads," predicts Arnold Mandell, professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. "Psychiatry will become the most scientifically precise of medical specialties, relying not at all on subjective judgment." Jack Barchas, professor of psychopharmacology at Stanford, thinks the current exploits of his field are on a par with Einstein's revolutionary formulation E = mc˛. Says he: "The discovery of the neuroregulators may prove as important to humanity as that equation. We are on the edge of a new era." Also...
When Sohio finally called it quits, California officials were stunned. Governor Brown's office sputtered that "only two final permits" were needed, and that approval could be expected within a week. Sohio officials were unimpressed. Said one: "We've been hearing that sort of thing for years...
...Ohio's exasperation with the environmental protection bureaucracy in California was surely understood by executives at many other companies, where "the high cost of Government regulation" has become one of the most cited sources of corporate angst. How steep is the price of meeting the proliferating demands and standards imposed by regulators? Estimates of the annual cost of federal regulation alone to U.S. industry have ranged from $79 billion a year (by Republican Economist Murray Weidenbaum) to $135 billion (by the Office of Management and Budget). Some Congressmen have tossed off estimates of $150 billion or more...
...Grammarian service for students and anyone else who calls with a question about correct usage. Other such lines have sprung up lately at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., and the Johnson County Community College near Kansas City, Kans. "We get several calls a week from California alone," says Arkansas English Instructor Michael Montgomery. The most common questions concern the correct use of who vs. whom, and which vs. that. The most frequent callers are secretaries struggling with their bosses' dictation. But college faculty members and local magazine editors have also rung up the help fully...