Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be happy being told their dad is No. 456," says Dr. Cappy Rothman, who heads the California Cryobank in Los Angeles. Some single mothers, sensitized by the related debate regarding adoption, want to carve out an option for their children now. The Sperm Bank of California in Oakland offers a new contract that, if signed by both sperm donor and mother, would allow a child access to his father's name upon turning 18. Lawyers warn, however, that such contracts are largely untested in the courts...
...slump persists. While few papers have scaled down as drastically as the Register, which is also burdened with a reported $200 million in takeover debt, cuts or hiring freezes have come at papers that were faltering even in better times, including the Denver Post, Dallas Times- Herald and Oakland Tribune...
...Yorker, I can't profess having cared much that the Cincinnati Reds thrashed the Oakland Athletics last week. So some midwestern team with a dumb name beat a bunch of California yahoos...
...Oakland has been slower than San Francisco to clean up. The 1 1/4-mile section of I-880 that collapsed, killing 42 people at the height of the evening rush hour, is long gone. But all over the city hundreds of small businesses remain boarded up, their plywood storefronts covered with layers of graffiti. Half a dozen residential hotels and more than 1,000 low-income rental units were lost in the quake, creating a severe shortage of affordable housing...
...Oakland's beaux arts-style city hall, opened in 1914, remains uninhabitable. Repairing it will take three years and cost at least $80 million. Last week the Bishop of Oakland, the Most Rev. John S. Cummins, announced that St. Francis de Sales Cathedral and Sacred Heart Church would have to be torn down % because the diocese could not afford the $8 million price tag for repairing them...