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...begun--and some would say doomed--effort to move most welfare clients off the dole and into decent jobs. As a graduate of a six-week welfare-to-work program sponsored by Marriott Corp., Bradford has a foot on the ladder at the company's Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Va., where he cleans and sets up conference rooms for $7.60 an hour (vs. the current minimum wage of $4.75). He gets health insurance and profit sharing and will be eligible for stock options next year. "In the beginning I was doubtful," Bradford recalls. "I had started other training programs...
...experienced a stock-market crash similar in magnitude to 1929's, with no immediate economic downturn. Indeed, the economy's expansion continued until July 1990. Many economists now blame the Federal Reserve and its actions for the 1929 downturn and the subsequent Great Depression. GAIL E. MAKINEN Arlington...
Lucker is survived by her husband of 45 years, Jay; their daughters, Amy Lucker of Arlington, Mass. and Nancy Lucker Lazerson and son-in-law Joshua Lazerson of Encinitas, Calif.; and her sister, Helen Stern-Richter of New York City...
Does the U.S. Air Force really think people will accept the explanation that its high-altitude balloons dropped dummies that did not in any way resemble human beings but just happened to be 3 1/2 to 4 ft. tall, with bluish-colored skin? DEE SCHOR Arlington Heights...
...BALLPARK IN ARLINGTON, Texas: With the pitch from the Texas Rangers' Darren Oliver to San Francisco's Darryl Hamilton at 7:11 p.m. CDT Thursday, interleague play in baseball officially began and the century-old wall between the leagues was torn down. First interleague count: 1-0. Baseball's new look is bemoaned by purists but hailed by marketers and bean-counters as just the shot in the arm (and hopefully a rise in attendance) that the game needs. Friday night's face-off in Atlanta between the Braves and Orioles is just what supporters had in mind: baseball...