Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rise in drug spending is beginning to have political repercussions. A movement is under way at the federal and state levels to bring about cheaper prescription drugs, an effort that could help the lower-cost generics. Bills are pending in several states, including California, to force drug companies to discount products for seniors. In Congress, a bipartisan commission will probably attempt to get Medicare to reverse its policy against paying for prescriptions, which could also favor the generics...
...what a week in L.A., where basketball's prodigal problem child took El Nino's spot on the roster of California calamities. Rodman rained tears at a press conference held at--where else?--Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills, where he complained about being unappreciated and underpaid but was profanely perky while discussing his sex life with current wife and former Baywatch babe Carmen Electra...
...thing; causing dissension in your community is another," says Vietnam vet Larkin Kennedy, whose forearm is tattooed with the image of a Vietnamese lady he left behind. "I used to rent videos here, and I regret it deeply," says Linda Nguyen, a student at the University of California at Long Beach. She sniffs: "His videos were copies and so blurry...
...Friends since middle school, these California boys chilled together in and out of class. "We basically have had the same classes together since seventh grade," Josh explains. Now they're roommates...
...Unless they try hard to avoid it [professors here] end up on more committees outside the institution than faculty at less prestigious schools," wrote Leverett House Master and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi in an e-mail message from California where he was attending a Department of Energy committee meeting...