Word: hampden
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...public schools now approach the national average. The range of achievement remains stunningly wide: the high school has gifted students and functional illiterates. Prince Edward High's debating and forensics teams are state champions. The yearbook, slick, lively and professional, wins awards. Some students go to nearby Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood College for advanced courses. School Superintendent James M. Anderson Jr. and his teachers have accomplished an academic resurrection...
...West Virginia, where battles have been especially fierce, nearly 300 strikers were arrested for blocking the road to a nonunion mine. Two employees at Hampden Coal were hit by shotgun pellets. Said a spokesman for A.T. Massey Coal: "There is a total state of chaos. The state ((of West Virginia)) is out of control." Mining-company executives have urged West Virginia Governor Gaston Caperton to call out the National Guard, which he has so far refused...
House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R-Hampden) called the local aid plan "political blackmail and little more." He said the governor should cut state spending in other areas, rather than raise taxes, to provide funds for local...
...other hand, Jordan St. John, press secretary to House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R-Hampden), denied there would be any "Dukakis-bashing...
House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R.-Hampden) introduced the amendment to drop the mandate, saying small business opposed the requirement despite a provision in the bill exempting firms with six employees or less...