Word: california
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Hughes Aircraft, the General Motors subsidiary that makes aircraft radar systems and missiles for the F-15 jet, has announced plans to lay off 6,000 of its 75,000 employees in Southern California. No new planes are being built at the Lockheed aircraft plant just north of Atlanta, which once produced such military mainstays as the C-130 and C-5 transports. Reduced to performing subcontracting jobs for Boeing and Northrop, the plant has chopped its 20,000- worker payroll in half...
Environmentalists and governments everywhere agree that something must be done to halt the widespread use of chloro-fluorocarbons (CFCs) and other substances that are destroying the earth's protective ozone layer -- and just about everybody agrees that nobody is doing enough. Last week the Southern California city of Irvine (pop. 110,000) did more than most...
Everyone had written off Richard Nixon after he was edged by John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race. Tricky Dick was in an even more embarrassing position than the Duke since two years after his defeat he was bested by Pat Brown in the California governor's race...
...future of guaranteed disintegration. There was a fair portion of intramural rivalry among band members. There was also a sense, even among the group's fans, that the Eagles' sound -- smooth melodies and often aseptic lyrics that took listeners on a twilight tour of the Hotel California -- might be about played...
...stopping anyone who has anything to do with pregnancy from getting involved." The Roman Catholic Church, in company with many conservative Protestant groups, opposes all in vitro fertilization. Nonetheless, the Yorks have received moral support in their suit from the Right to Life League of Southern California. "Howard Jones has no rights in this matter," says president Susan Carpenter McMillan. "He's playing God -- in effect saying 'I created this life, so I can decide what to do with it.' But he only provided the tools, not the materials...