Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They're putting forth the notion that California's grape fields are a Third World country, but in fact they are the best regulated in the country," he said...
...damage that usually doesn't become fully apparent until the teens or early 20s. Kaczynski's family has said he was always an antisocial child and that his behavior got worse as he got older. At 26, he abruptly resigned from a prestigious teaching post at the University of California, Berkeley, and dropped out of society. The first Unabom attack occurred three days after his 36th birthday...
Last May, UCLA Political Science Chair Ronald L. Rogowski and University of California at Berkeley Professor Robert Powell came up for tenure at Harvard but were defeated at the departmental level...
...depressed, as any Hispanic or African-American does. Surely, it is harder to learn English as a first-or second-generation Asian-American than a native Spanish speaker. If the SATs are culturally biased, such tests should appear doubly opaque to Asian-Americans. And yet, the University of California at Berkeley sets quotas to keep the Asian student body below 30 percent, while Asian-Americans make up more than 20 percent of Harvard's own student population...
Iovine often sees hits where others see only whiffs. In early 1991 he heard a tape by a scuffling California punk-ska band called No Doubt. The band had been struggling since the late 1980s with little to show for it. Iovine recognized that No Doubt's alternative pop sound offered a fresh twist on rock, and that singer Gwen Stefani had star power. "All the pieces fit together, even if the music wasn't that far advanced," he says. "We felt they could be big, with a little work and grooming." Iovine and Interscope president Tom Whalley sharpened...