Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patricia Hearst, daughter of publishing mogul Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group demands $70 in food for every needy person in California for a ransom. Hearst later declares that she is joining the group of her own will and is indicted in June for her involvement in a San Francisco bank robbery...
McCormack has recently been accepted to the University of California at Los Angeles film school; he and his wife will be moving from Nebraska to Los Angeles in the fall...
Without the necessary connections or the proper experience immediately after graduation, Sagansky gave up knocking on doors in California and headed back to Cambridge to attend Harvard Business School...
...Gates if he's feeling a bit paranoid this week. By a brutal coincidence, his firm faces the unenviable task of defending itself in four different courtrooms simultaneously. Tiny software companies in Utah and Connecticut are taking Microsoft to task for its strong-arm operating-system tactics. Over in California, larger rival Sun Microsystems wants to save its Java programming language from Microsoft "pollution." And oh, yeah, there's the small matter of the antitrust trial, resuming Tuesday in Washington, where Justice Department lawyers are set to wheel out their biggest gun yet, an executive from IBM, the first computer...
...cool computer screensaver. Now I've got both, thanks to SETI@home, a nifty piece of software that searches for intelligent life in the universe whenever I'm away from my desk. The program, available for free at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu is the brainchild of SETI scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, who have been scanning the skies for E.T.'s radio signals for more than 20 years...