Word: pasadena
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...debt-ridden and desperate KROQ in Pasadena, Calif., broke the bland playlist. Its new format: then unknown bands like Britain's Duran Duran and the rockabilly Stray Cats (both now megagroups). The reversal was quick. When Berlin's Pleasure Victim played on the station, a surprising 25,000 copies were sold locally. Now KROQ is the No. 1 rock station in the large Los Angeles radio market. Says then Program Director Rick Carroll, who now advises ten other stations on strategy: "I sensed that there was a big audience out there looking for something of their own. Music...
...Wing Sang is a mortuary. Billie Williams, a black businessman, and Pharmacist Doug Kosobayashi, who is Japanese, own and run a flourishing Pasadena drugstore called Berry & Sweeney...
Gravity Guidance of Pasadena, Calif., is the leading boot manufacturer. Its sales have exploded from less than $200,000 in 1979 to more than $12 million last year, and are expected to top $35 million in 1983. Total sales: more than 350,000 pairs...
...half years ago Linda Ferris underwent Caesarean section, in the birth of a daughter, Andrea, at the Pasadena Bayshore Hospital. During the birth, the Ferrises claimed, Andrea suffered the oxygen deprivation that caused her to become permanently brain-damaged; according to doctors, she will remain at the mental and physical level of a two-year-old for the rest of her life, which could be 75 more years...
...Ferrises sued the Hospital Corporation of America-which owns the Pasadena Hospital--for malpractice, but settled out of court. The corporation agreed to pay the Ferrises $7000 a month for twenty years or for the rest of Andrea's life, whichever is longer, increasing 6 percent a year. If Andrea lives until she is 77, the total payment will come to $119 million, which would make it the largest malpractice payment ever...