NEWS
January 8, 1991 | ROBERT A. JONES
Memorable decades rarely end neatly at their chronological borders. And so it was with the Eighties. In California, at least, the Eighties finally seemed to self-destruct sometime in the last half of 1990. Maybe it was the day a California homeowner sold his house for less than what he had paid. Or maybe it was the day when George Deukmejian woke up and discovered that a comfortable surplus in the state budget had turned into a huge, blood-sucking deficit.