Word: catalina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to have to pay for it. Instead of blowing the budget surplus on a big tax cut, we should find ways to invest in those who care for our vulnerable elders. Providing decent pay, training and benefits would be a start. JUDITH B. CLINCO, R.N., B.S. Catalina In-Home Services Inc. Tucson, Ariz...
...30th and Catalina, a colorless flatland marked by the concrete cake boxes of light industry, the driver of the Lincoln has jammed on the brakes and is bolting on foot as Atkinson turns the corner in pursuit. The backseat passenger hotfoots it in the other direction, and the front passenger slides cleanly across the seat, perhaps unseen by Atkinson. That passenger stands at the door, levels a .357 magnum at the squad car and fires several rounds. He is wearing a SAY NO TO DRUGS SHIRT. There is $7,000 worth of cocaine in the glove box and a shotgun...
...Lights, wipers, pressure gauges, shakes, rattles. I check everything," he says as we head out on his 20-mile course in a $72,000 Catalina with a queen-size bed and a factory-fresh scent. Slaven came in three years ago, after 20 years as national sales manager for Sears. He gave up $16,000 a year but spends more time with his wife. "I'd have to say it's just about the best job in the place...
...TUCSON WAS the model of a happy farm for substance abusers. Thousands of people from across the country came to the manicured 325-acre "campus" to deal with their addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, sex or gambling among the saguaros and sagebrush in the foothills of Arizona's Santa Catalina mountains. It was a Cadillac of the substance-abuse centers, and a company-provided Cadillac at that: employee health insurance routinely covered most of the costs of the standard 30-day stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used to be 313 beds for people with...
...some aspects of Zedillo's economic belt-tightening program. Nonetheless, some Jalisco voters turned against the P.R.I. in part because of dismay over the nation's financial crisis. Since the December devaluation of the peso and the resulting sharp rise in prices, ``we earn enough to half-eat,'' jokes Catalina Ventura, speaking for herself and Concepcion Martinez, two saleswomen in a crafts shop in Tlaquepaque, outside Guadalajara, explaining why they had abandoned the P.R.I. to vote P.A.N. Such sentiments do not bode well for Zedillo's ability to unify the country behind the tough measures that will still be needed...