BRIEFLY : COUNCIL VOTE REJECTS BIDDING FOR CATERERS.THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Following a debate laced with political infighting in·fight·ing n. 1. Contentious rivalry or disagreement among members of a group or organization: infighting on the President's staff. 2. Fighting or boxing at close range. , a council majority voted down a council member's recommendation that would have required the formal solicitation of bids for food vendors or caterers at city functions. In a divided 3-2 vote Tuesday night, the Thousand Oaks City Council rejected Mayor Pro Tem [Latin, For the time being.] An abbreviation used for pro tempore, Latin for "temporary or provisional." A person who acts as a temporary substitute serves pro tem. Linda Parks' proposal that all catering companies interested in contracting with the city to cater public meetings or events to conduct all correspondence in writing rather than by telephone. Parks said she hoped to keep competition for catering events open to all local companies by requiring written bids and suggested that several caterers who have political relationships with city officials may have been favored for city functions. But other council members maintained that the city's current system for booking caterers is sufficiently fair and unbiased, with city officials calling various local companies and selecting the lowest bidder. Parks withdrew a second recommendation originally on the agenda to institute a policy prohibiting appointed board members and city commissioners from offering their professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for payment. That item was withdrawn and no vote was taken. - Daily News Morphine morphine, principal derivative of opium, which is the juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. It was first isolated from opium in 1803 by the German pharmacist F. W. A. overdose overdose /over·dose/ (o´ver-dos?) 1. to administer an excessive dose. 2. an excessive dose. o·ver·dose n. An excessive dose, especially of a narcotic. cited in pair's death VENTURA - A La Conchita couple found dead in bed last March died of an accidental morphine overdose, coroner's officials said Wednesday. Robert Alan Kruger, a 37-year-old investment broker who worked in Oxnard, and his girlfriend, Christine Deanne Churchill, 28, were found dead March 30 when Churchill's two children returned home from a weekend outing. ``They took (morphine pills) for recreational uses and bought it off the street,'' said Jim Wingate, chief investigator with the Coroner's Office. ``And it was much stronger than they thought and it caused their deaths.'' The overdose, he said, slowed their respiration respiration, process by which an organism exchanges gases with its environment. The term now refers to the overall process by which oxygen is abstracted from air and is transported to the cells for the oxidation of organic molecules while carbon dioxide (CO and eventually caused their hearts to stop. Authorities said there was no indication of suicide and ruled the fatalities as accidental. - Daily News |
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