Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joseph Hospital in suburban Burbank, Calif., has hired the four-doctor Burbank Emergency Medical Group to run its emergency department. Four Chicago-area hospitals rely on an eight-year-old organization called Medical Emergency Service Associates (MESA) for their ER coverage. MESA has 40 full-and part-time physicians to assign. Each doctor makes his own financial arrangements with his patients (the average charge is $12), but the fees are paid to MESA, which pays its members by the hour rather than on a fee-for-service arrangement...
Buyers are adding many expensive options that can almost double the price of a $2,200 subcompact. The extras include "deluxe" gas caps, fake woodgrain treatments for station wagons, air conditioning and more powerful (and gas-thirsty) engines. For $300, Custom-glass, Inc., of Costa Mesa, Calif., will even convert a Ford Pinto into a "Mini Mark IV" Continental by revamping its rear end and giving it a nose bob. Why go to all that bother to doll up a compact with all the frills? Detroit's backseat psychologists have this explanation: the U.S. consumer figures that buying...
...modern cruiser by a succession of naval architects. "Colin Archers," as the boats are still called, have circled the globe. Suhaili, Eric, Thistle-their names are familiar in far ports. The latest incarnation, the West-sail 32, is a roomy, teak and fiber-glass version built in Costa Mesa, Calif., by a young refugee from electrical engineering named Snider Vick. With his small production line and a fierce de votion to quality, Vick is determined to give fits to competitors whom he calls "the plastic pop-out people"-the mass producers of lightly built fiber-glass boats, few of which...
...Mesa, Calif...
Whatever the real objective, the Navy did test the concept both in wind tunnels and off 1,000-ft.-high Hurricane Mesa in Utah. As expected, the Navy's flying saucers always soared beautifully-when they were unloaded. But when they had to carry any significant extra weight they fell flat on their faces. Conclusion: the Frisbee's lift-to-drag ratio was insufficient for the vehicle to support a working flare. Back to the drawing board...