Word: california
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...children of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was born in New York City and moved as a child to Milwaukee, Wis. His intense Zionism grew out of immense loss: by his count, 120 of his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. After earning a medical degree, he migrated to California, where he got into the business of buying and building small private hospitals, then selling them to large conglomerates...
...Kansas. Then she read L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, which Alley believes changed her life by making her take responsibility for herself. "I thought, O.K., this is either the world's biggest scam or it's fabulous. I stopped working, quit my job, and I drove my car to California to be a Scientologist...
...third in which Dow Chemical has been involved, and in one of the previous two trials you referred to, the judge overturned the jury verdict, thus freeing Dow Chemical from any liability. Furthermore, Dow Chemical has been dismissed from about 4,000 implant cases in New York, Michigan and California because judges found no basis for suing it for the product produced by another company. JOHN MUSSER, Director of Public Affairs Dow Chemical Co. Midland, Mich...
...months until the perfect buyer, one who can print money if he has to, showed an interest: Uncle Sam. Republican Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge of federal parks, is brokering a deal whereby Congress will appropriate $5 million and give it to California, which will in turn give it to the Reagans for the 100-year-old adobe house and grounds they paid $480,000 for in 1974. Then the state, with $4 million that Governor Pete Wilson has pledged to raise privately, will operate and maintain the spread...
...development seems a tad unlikely, given the rugged terrain 2,000 ft. up a narrow, twisting seven-mile road. But Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust, calls the purchase "highly irregular," given that the fund for taking care of well-established parks is in "desperate shape." And California Democratic Congressman George Miller says he finds no justification for paying millions to a President who railed against pork...