Word: bernardino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invented years ago but have been sold almost exclusively to police departments and other institutions. Within a month, though, Prescott Technologies plans to sell the BreathScan for $1.59 in supermarkets, pharmacies and liquor stores nationwide. A competing product, the 15-Second Driver's Test from Luckey Laboratories in San Bernardino, Calif., may soon be widely available...
...first electronic library bulletin board. The system, which lets people with home computers and modems dial into the library's Apple II, has logged 16,000 calls in three years, including requests for everything from book reviews to tips on pet care. A library bulletin board in San Bernardino, Calif., lists theater performances and city council meetings, as well as the phone numbers and addresses of local politicians. Library planners envision the day when a reader sitting at a branch-library terminal will be able to call up books and articles stored in computers all over the world...
...company (1983 sales: $3.1 billion) disclosed last week that it will sell its 50 billionth hamburger some time late this month or in early November. The tally goes back to 1948, when hamburger No. 1 went on the grill at the McDonald brothers' drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, Calif. McDonald's acknowledges that it will be unable to single out the 50 billionth patty among its restaurants in 31 countries. But it says that its computer analysts will be able to estimate roughly, about ten days ahead of time, the day and the hour the historic burger...
...movies: Flashdance has the shameless energy of a prototypical rock video. Look at how the kids are dressing: off the shoulder, like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, on the razzle, like Michael Jackson in Beat It, or like Boy George in extremis. Students at Holy Rosary Academy in San Bernardino, Calif., are by no means atypical. They learn the latest by watching groups on videos doing dances like the Centipede and Popping...
Except for the shooting area, finally settled in San Bernardino County, every venue has been set up on schedule and under budget. Several have staged dress rehearsals and checked out smartly. The Atlantic Richfield Co. funded $5 million in improvements to the 60-year-old Coliseum (Olympic capacity: 92,516), including a state-of-the-art synthetic track of German-made red Rekortan. Lacking the three to five years for the soft surface to shake down, the committee has been vacuuming up excess granules...