Word: tacoma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funds to make the machines even more widely available. Other states are not far behind. At the Cranford, N.J., public library, business executives testing the latest financial-management programs have to compete for computer time with game-playing teenagers. Video games are not allowed at the public library in Tacoma; instead, the library offers free BASIC programming classes and a well-stocked computer lab, where potential buyers can test-drive the latest models. At the Peterborough, N.H., town library, cardholders check out and take home low-cost computers just as they would a mystery or gothic romance...
...most prominent incumbent to go down to defeat was Washington's Republican Governor John Spellman, 57, who was initially considered the favorite in his bid for a second term. But in September, Tacoma-area County Executive Booth Gardner, 48, came out of nowhere not only to win the Democratic nomination in the state's open primary but also to attract enough crossover Republican votes to embarrass the Governor. Gardner, heir to a Weyerhaeuser lumber fortune, styles himself a "citizen politician." He traveled through the state like a breath of fresh Cascades air, accusing Spellman of creating buck-passing...
...Tacoma, Wash...
...cranking out millions of souvenirs ranging from sleeping bags to lunch pails emblazoned with characters from the two films. Such tony department stores as Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor are touting the official Indiana Jones hat. The popularity of Gremlins is an unexpected windfall for Brown & Haley, a Tacoma, Wash., candymaker that for 35 years has been producing a product with the same name. Since the movie opened, Gremlins have been a sellout...
...need for a radical new approach to the treatment of pain became obvious to Bonica while serving as chief of anesthesiology at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, during World...