Word: carrollton
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...Carrollton, Texas...
After exchanges from Hawaii to England, Tom and Pat Hogan of Carrollton, Texas, are so enamored of the house-swap life that they're shopping for a retirement home in Florida, partly because it is a much sought destination for vacationing Europeans. "That way, we could string together four or five exchanges," Pat says, "and spend time in Europe in the summer...
...extracted the concessions at a time when the company's profits for 1995 and 1996 totaled $11.8 billion. To put that figure in context, it would be enough money to run the West Carrollton schools, where most Moraine children attend classes, for the next 400 years. As 1997 gave way to 1998, GM dangled the possibility of yet another plant before the Moraine city fathers, and they jumped. This time the tax relief amounts to an estimated $28 million--or about $156,000 for each of the 180 new jobs to be created...
Fifteen-year-old Alex McClendon was the classic new kid in town. When the lanky 5-ft. 5-in. freshman sashayed into Georgian Country Day School in Carrollton, Ga., heads turned to gaze at her blond coif and perfectly made-up face. Beyond the look, the popular Alex had a flair for style. Nothing could come between her and the Calvins that were her daily uniform. Nothing except the board of trustees at her private school, who "invited" Alex to withdraw. It wasn't just her pierced tongue that rankled, but something she had taken greater pains to conceal...
Harold Eason, principal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton School and an employee of the system since 1970, told investigators how a mentally unstable teacher called him one Sunday and told him that she not only felt suicidal, but also that "she was worried that she may hurt someone's child." He resolved right then not to allow her back into the classroom but did not try to fire her. Rather, he arranged a transfer to another school--to its library, in order to reduce her contact with students. That was around 1988, he stated. Nearly a decade later...