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Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur , state (1990 pop. 317,764), 27,571 sq mi (71,428 sq km), NW Mexico, on the S Baja California peninsula. La Paz is the capital. Most of the area is lightly populated and has little arable land. Some cotton is grown commercially, and there is significant salt mining in the... Read more |
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California Pizza Kitchen Inc
California Pizza Kitchen Inc. 6053 W. Century Boulevard, 11th Floor Los Angeles, California 90045 U.S.A. Telephone: (310) 342-5000 Fax: (310) 342-4640 Web site: http://www.cpk.com Public Company Incorporated: 1985 Employees: 3,000 Sales: $422.5 million (2004) Stock... Read more |
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Diane Johnson
Johnson, Diane [Lain] (1934–), born in Illinois, long resident in California, where she earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught at the University of California, Davis. Her novels include Fair Game (1965), a comic portrayal of four men variously involved with... Read more |
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Far West
Far West, region bounded by the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, and the Northwest and Southwest regions, includes California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. The region varies from the desert wastes of Nevada to the forested Sierra Nevada and fertile valleys... Read more |
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Formed: 1983, Los Angeles, California Members: Michael "Flea" Balzary, bass (born Melbourne, Australia, 16 October 1962); John Frusciante, guitar (born New York, New York, 5 March 1970); Anthony Kiedis, vocals (born Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1 November 1962); Chad Smith... Read more |
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Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeoufJune 11, 1986 • Los Angeles, CaliforniaActorFor three years, from 2000 until 2003, most people knew him as the mop-headed, wise-cracking younger brother Louis on the top-rated Disney Channel series Even Stevens. But in 2003, thanks to his breakthrough lead role in the movie Holes, teen... Read more |
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Carson
Carson city (1990 pop. 83,995), Los Angeles co., S Calif., an industrial and residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1968. Oil refining is the major industry; fabricated metals, paper, and other products are manufactured. The California State Univ. Dominguez Hills is there.... Read more |
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Serrano
Serrano The Serrano, including the Alliklik, Kitanemuk, and Vanyume, lived in a large area to the east and north of Los Angeles, California, in the San Bernardino Range, Tehachapi Mountains, and environs. They spoke Serran languages of the Uto-Aztecan stock. The one hundred or so Serrano... Read more |
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California Current
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Judy Sierra
Sierra, Judy 1945-PersonalBorn Judy Strup, June 8, 1945, in Washington, DC; name legally changed, 1985; daughter of Joseph L. (a photographer) and Jean (a librarian) Strup; married Robert Walter Kaminski (a puppeteer and elementary schoolteacher); children: Christopher Robin Strup. Education:... Read more |
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Fashion biz back for L.A. men's stores; basics were the main buys following...
...months after the big quake. Shortly after...fact, for some Los Angeles-area retailers...three of its eight Los Angeles-area Bullock...in the southern California Bullock's reflect...which it plans to take ... |
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L.A. banks are near normal after quake. (Los Angeles, California, 1994...
...branch in Chatsworth, near the quake's epicenter, remains closed...on the Richter scale, shook Los Angeles on Jan. 17, when banks were...vacant office space in downtown Los Angeles. Five buses take about 520 employees in two ... |
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L.A. quake sends CPAs scrambling. (Los Angeles, California; January 17, 1994...
...homes that the California Society of CPAs...spokeswoman for the California Society of CPAs...Feb. 28. The California Society of Enrolled...the Jan. 17 quake, Herzog said...to downtown Los Angeles. Their coworkers...victims ... |
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Roads, bridges and utilities crumble as earthquake shakes City of Angels;...
...until dawn curfew on Los Angeles streets to help...that withstood the quake, thousands of residents...even begin. The Los Angeles County Fire Department...camp in Southern California to assist. However...estimated time it ... |
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Quake rattles L.A.; TV, radio keep rolling. (Jan 17, 1994, Los Angeles,...
...the air after the quake, and then pulled...devastated by the quake, which measured...of the city of Los Angeles lost electrical service...half hours after the quake, viewers stuck with...the earthquake will take an $8 ... |
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Los Angeles faces a dangerous quake debt. (earthquake deficit in Southern...
...Center in Los Angeles. Two other...city's quake risk. Many...southern California have focused...magnitude 8.0 quakes from the...kilometers of Los Angeles. But the...San Andreas quake. The ... |
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4.3-Magnitude Quake in Los Angeles
...as the initial quake, seismologist said. The quakes were in an area...north of downtown Los Angeles. David Martinez...but I could take incoming calls...of the original quake. ``Nothing...according to the ... |
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THEY'LL TAKE MANHATTAN (AND LUNCH IN L.A.).(bicoastalism, or living in both...
...straddled both New York and Los Angeles. (People who maintained...back. Still, it would take necessity--and the...air in a real way. When Los Angeles was having its flirtation...in the early '90s--quakes, brushfires, mud ... |
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Los Angeles Quake Safety Lags;70,000 Live in Unreinforced Brick Buildings
...had such requirements. Los Angeles City Council member Richard...may be a $100 million quake-safety bond issue...at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), which is not...that the city ought "to ... |
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Aftershocks. (January 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles, California) (Editorial)
...and in Los Angeles, the city best...have here in California," Phillips...speaking Armenian, California," Phillips...Spanish, though a Los Angeles Times poll reports...weeks after the quake were Latino ... |
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