Word: california
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However, PepsiCo is still shipping concentrate to its Iranian bottlers, and Continental Telephone is proceeding with building a phone cable network for Tehran. One of the largest projects had been the joint venture between California's Fluor Corp. and West Germany's Thyssen to build a $750 million, 200,000 bbl.-a-day oil refinery at Isfahan for the National Iranian Oil Co. The refinery has been a high-priority item for the Iranian government, which fears shortages of kerosene and diesel fuel during the winter. Last week, when the refinery was a month away from partial operation...
...punch lines that Reagan has used to wow audiences since 1964, when he campaigned for Barry Goldwater. But Reagan delivered his speech with far less passion than he has in the past. This time he is the front runner, and in an attempt to broaden his appeal, the former California Governor seems to have banked the fires that once frightened more moderate G.O.P. factions...
...Governor of California for eight years, and he believes that somehow Government by the people has been snatched away from them. Says he: "I think one of the things that has been done over the past few decades. . . was a tendency to have increasing Government by an elite, and those at the Government levels believing that they had to make the decisions more and more regarding how business and industry are run, interfering virtually in every one of our lives. And they are doing this to a people who for 200 years have probably been the most independent and most...
Margaret, 32, a California housewife, seemed in perfect health. Then, while shopping one day, she suddenly fell to the floor dead, apparently of a heart attack. Harry's demise was less unexpected; the New York stockbroker, 49, had been suffering from angina pectoris, periodic attacks of severe chest pain, for several months before he died in his sleep. In both cases, doctors assumed the fatal attacks had been triggered by blood clots or atherosclerotic plaques clogging the pencil-thin arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to heart muscle. But autopsies showed that the coronary arteries of both victims were...
...turn of the century. But there was no proof, and spasm remained simply a theory, overshadowed by mounting evidence that atherosclerotic disease was a major cause of cardiac attacks. Then, in 1970, doctors got "the first eyeball look at an episode of coronary spasm." At the University of California in Los Angeles, Cardiologist Albert Kattus and his team were doing a coronary bypass operation on a woman when suddenly one of the vessels began to constrict. As that happened, Kattus recalls, "we could feel that her coronary artery was tough like twine instead of soft and pliable...