Word: jon
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...first order of business, before we consider any new programs, is to see that current funds are being spent appropriately and effectively," says Jon Brandt, press secretary to Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), a member of the House Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee...
...trend in off-Broadway plays of 1991 is recapitulated in movies of late '96, as Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire races Marvin's Room to the plexes. Both are realistic dramas spiked with wit about families gathering around an old man as he slips toward death. Indeed, The Substance of Fire could be Marvin's Room from Marvin's point of view...
Kinsley tries to tie together the fortunes of liberalism and libertarianism. That is a fatal flaw in his argument. Liberalism views marijuana use and gay rights as morally equivalent, while libertarian thought does not attach any morality to either of them. JON ACKER Tuscaloosa, Alabama...
...Scripps Research Institute to establish the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, which will study new approaches to pharmaceutical design. The Skaggs donation matches the largest gift ever made by an individual for medical research, a $100 million donation to the University of Utah made by chemical-industry executive Jon M. Huntsman...
...kind of problem a school could solve, New Trier would probably ace it. It was among the first high schools in Illinois to face up to the last teenage drug explosion, in 1981. "We made a decision then to go public and say we have a problem," says Jon White, assistant principal for student services. When school officials decided in 1985 to go outside to hire a full-time person to deal with substance abuse, they opted not for an enforcer or an educator but for Mary Dailey, a social worker from an adolescent treatment center...