Word: jim
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...Florida, voucher proponents had argued that parents would jump at the chance to get their "trapped" kids out of public schools. Yet of the 870 students offered vouchers, only 60 took them; eight have since moved back to the public schools. Area superintendent Jim May explains that parents already had the option of switching their kids into other public schools, which, unlike the private schools, pay for transportation and lunch. The 52 kids still using the vouchers are mostly happy, say their parents, but that's the only evidence of improvement because the state has refused to release the voucher...
When people bother to claim a party affiliation in Westland, it's about even Steven between the Republicans and Democrats. Former Democratic governor Jim Blanchard says: "You national media people still looking for those Reagan Democrats? They're either Republicans now or they're dead." He's right. Ed McNamara, who runs the Wayne County Democratic machine from Detroit, figures up to 40 percent of the union workers voted Republican in 1996. The average - yep, average - wage for the United Auto Workers member in Michigan is $60,000. The honest among them admit this is now the upper-middle-class...
...Jim Hardy, a field services representative for MASC, worked with the committee and has helped dozens of other committees around the state to organize their policies...
...need to opt out of the collective din, you can put on headphones. At ad agency Ground Zero in Los Angeles, chairman Jim Smith reports, "everyone's computer plays music, so they wear their headphones and create their own worlds." At idealab! several people resort to this strategy. "I have no idea what they're listening to," says Horwitz...
...Poorly received "Thumbless Jim" mascot b) Ace Hardware's chocolate grout c) Price deflation in lumber d) Liability issues with Li'l Billy's Bath-tub Belt-sander...