Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOOK FORWARD TO] A famous spouse: Donna Dixon (3), Miss Virginia 1976, is Mrs. Dan Aykroyd; Marla Maples (4), a 1983 Miss Georgia runner-up, is an ex-wife of Donald Trump, co-owner of Miss...
...highways and creating their own disaster bulletins ? the traffic kind. Cars packed with families, pets and suitcases crept west at hours per mile, and when Floyd cruised on by, folks were inclined to feel that safe had been exactly the same as sorry. "There was no need to go," Georgia convenience-store owner Subhash Patel told the USA Today after his four-and-a-half-hour, 39-mile trip cost him two days of business. "We got scared unnecessarily by the media, by all the attention." Total evacuation: over 3 million, the largest in U.S. history...
WORK YOUR WAY UP School administrators, including Renee Shackelford, principal of Flat Shoals Elementary, a year-round school in Georgia, have learned that if you are planning to introduce uniforms into the schools, it is easier to start with younger students. That's because, she explains, their "parents are still making a lot of the decisions...
...recent months, Alabama, Oregon, Louisiana and Tennessee joined the other states that maintain "do not call" lists that consumers can join and telemarketers must obey. Companies that ignore these no-call lists can pay a high price. In May, Georgia's consumer-affairs office fined TruGreen/Chemlawn $45,000 for repeated violations. In states such as Arkansas and Florida, consumers pay nominal fees to join the lists, and companies pay a few dollars for copies. "It's duplicative, and it's expensive," argues Stephen Altobelli, spokesman for the Direct Marketing Association, says of the state lists. The group maintains a nationwide...
...gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit. However, after reviewing more than 30 boxes of documents from the Georgia Amateur Athletics Foundation, investigators say there were many gifts worth more than $1,000, including offers of scholarships to IOC family members. In fact, the discrepancies were so great that earlier this month the law firm that represented the city's Olympic committee asked Commerce if it could "amend...