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...month work release sentence for making a false statement. She described the crime as "all technical violations," like driving 60 m.p.h. in 55 m.p.h. zones. "There's been little fear of heavy sentences. It's more often a slap on the wrist," says Robert McDiarmid, a Santa Clara County private investigator who handles high-tech security for industry...
...firm is based in Cambridge and has branches in Washington, D.C. and Santa Clara, California. The physical plant of the Cambridge branch is limited to their dorm room in Leverett House, but this poses few serious problems; if they want to meet with clients, they pay a visit in their Cadillac limousine...
...employees since December. Mostek, the chipmaking division of United Technologies, lost more than $40 million in the first quarter. It said last week that it would furlough 1,600 of the 4,800 workers at its Carrollton, Texas, plant. National Semiconductor of Santa Clara, Calif., shut down most of its plants for two weeks in February and is currently imposing a six-month pay freeze and a four-day work week...
Allende is not just an epigone of Garcia Marquez. Writing in the tradition of Latin America's magic realists, she has a singular talent for producing full- scale representational portraits with comic surreal touches. Her rendering of the Trueba patriarch Esteban and his wife Clara is a hilarious display of mismatching. While the crude, commonsensical Esteban is doomed by nature to cause constant offense to his wife, Clara the Clairvoyant irritates her spouse by her perpetual whispered concourse with the spirits...
Esteban's efforts to please Clara prove disastrous. After their wedding he can think of nothing better to present to his bride than the hide of her beloved dead dog Barrabas, turned into a rug and laid out at the foot of the marriage bed. "His two glass eyes stared up at her with the helpless look that is the specialty of taxidermists." Esteban's insensitiveness toward his wife extends beyond the grave. When Clara dies, the inconsolable widower begins wearing a suede pouch hanging under his shirt. "In it were his wife's false teeth, which he treated...