The California institution will walk away with about $75 million in cash and stock in the Bank of Montreal.

Beverly Hills was one of the first and most aggressive California institutions that speculated on real estate and lost heavily.

But from 1940 to 1961 scientists associated with the California institution now called the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory created 11 new elements.

Take away that peculiarly California institution and they would all starve.

It is the second acquisition agreement in a week involving a large California institution.

Gibraltar is the fifth California institution to enter the Florida market.

The California institutions involved were not specified in the report but several large ones are known to be in jeopardy.

American Savings, a California institution, has been insolvent since huge losses and a run by depositors in 1984.

For example, he liked the City of Hope, a California medical institution, so it got handsome donations.

That began to change in the 1960's, when Chicano activists at Berkeley and other California institutions discovered it.