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...fastest-growing charge cards are the ones that automatically deduct money from checking accounts. The amounts riding on such debit-card use could zoom nearly 600% over the next eight years, according to H. Spencer Nilson of the Nilson Report, an Oxnard, California, newsletter that follows this industry.While Visa's credit-card business grew 16% last year, the use of its "CheckCard" debit service jumped 47%, as consumers sought to avoid finance and interest charges...
...pried open the trunk of her car. Ferguson also clashed with police when he got into a shoving match with a woman over a subway seat. He had compiled a list of complaints and enemies, as did other recent mass murderers -- including Alan ( Winterbourne, who shot four people in Oxnard, California, two weeks ago, and Gian Luigi Ferri, who killed eight people in a San Francisco office building last July. But while officials on the compensation board and at Adelphi were on Ferguson's list, to him almost everyone -- white, Asian or black -- had become a racist and particularly prejudiced...
Robert A. France Oxnard, Calif...
...White House office is filled with Western props. There is a large photo of three horsemen, taken in 1967 when Clark was Reagan's chief of staff in Sacramento. The riders are Reagan, Clark and Clark's father William, formerly a rancher and the police chief of Oxnard, Calif. In the corner, Clark's gray stetson dangles from a hat rack. Near by, encased in glass, rest the Colt .44 revolver and marshal's badge that belonged to his grandfather Robert Emmet Clark, once the sheriff of Ventura County and a U.S. marshal...
...night he resumed his studies at Loyola, but his grades were so lackluster that the dean urged him to go full time or quit. Clark left Loyola without graduating and studied for the bar exam on his own. On the second try, he passed. He went home to Oxnard, "opened up my own firm and waited for the phone to ring." It did, and Clark became quite successful as an attorney. He was also active in the family ranching business...