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...prods the heads of Amex-listed companies to lobby, too. When the Amex co-sponsored a management conference in Washington last month, the 150 chief executives who came were urged to invite a Congressman to dinner. The Amex also invites two dozen or so of its company presidents to attend briefings held for businessmen by members of the White House senior staff every six weeks...
Vazquez said a woman administrator, whose name he could not recall, told him that not turning in his study card would allow him to withdraw, despite an explicit statement in the Summer School catalogue warning that "merely ceasing to attend classes does not constitute withdrawal...
...through the second grade, but then they fall behind, teachers say, unable to master English and buffeted by their turbulent cross-country lives. "Quite honestly, most of the older migrant children are lost when they come here," says Walter Brey, principal of the Palmyra Elementary School, where older migrants attend school while in Wisconsin. But for their younger brothers and sisters, the grounding for education may be the only means of breaking the cycle of wandering and deprivation. Says Migrant Maria Covarabuis, a mother of five: "I want for my children to go to school and college and have...
Born in Oklahoma, Miller grew up in the oil boomtown of Borger, Texas, and went on to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. In China shortly after World War II, he met his wife Ariadna, a White Russian living in Shanghai. After law school at the University of California and four years in a Wall Street law firm, Miller took a job at Textron Inc., the big Providence-based conglomerate, eventually becoming its chairman. During his 17 years running Textron, the company's annual sales grew from $383 million a year to $2.8 billion, and profits jumped from...
Students' reasons for participating varied from just learning English to learning more about America. Santiago Becerra said he traveled from Columbia with his family because he will attend the Business School next year...