Word: bridgeport
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Yale students in ROTC currently must join most other Connecticut participants at the University of Connecticut ROTC units, which include only Air Force and Army programs. In addition, there are two small Army and Air Force detachments at the University of Bridgeport and Central Connecticut State University, which are far from the central unit at UConn...
...front of the Ralphola Taylor Community Center in the tough Newfield district of Bridgeport, Conn., Bob Doss gazes down at a slashed cat somebody killed just for fun. Nearby, sullen men eye a fence hawking boom boxes. The Taylor Center is home court for Doss's Upward Bound Academy basketball team. "Not a pastoral setting," says the 6-ft. 6-in. Doss, 40, who grew up in a Bridgeport housing project. "But then, we're not a pastoral academy...
...after naval service and stints at three colleges, Doss returned to Bridgeport with a wife, family, and a B.A. from Roosevelt University in Chicago. All went well until his daughter Daria began to speak of many friends dropping out of Bridgeport high schools...
...allow them to hang on to valued employees who might otherwise quit. Travelers Corp. has offered lunchtime support groups, flextime hours and an information fair for employees to meet with social service experts. PepsiCo provides seminars and a handbook on care of the elderly. Remington Products Inc., of Bridgeport, Conn., pays half the cost of parent sitters who can take over for employees on evenings and weekends...
...Bridgeport, Ohio...