Word: martin
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...When Maximus went public this summer, analysts rushed to rate the company a "buy," and the stock is already up almost 50%. But the outlook for private welfare is so bullish that Maximus has to compete with corporate giants like the $14.5 billion EDS and the $27 billion Lockheed Martin of the defense-and-aerospace industry. Lockheed Martin moved into the welfare field about 10 years ago, and with the cold war's end, its government-services division has become the fastest-growing part of the company. Today it collects fully 11% of all child-support payments taken in nationwide...
Maximus, as well as the other private welfare companies, can point to a number of successes across the country. Its "Fairfax Works" program in Fairfax, Va., has moved thousands off welfare into real-world employment, free from government subsidies. A Lockheed Martin welfare program in Dallas has placed 76% of its clients in new jobs paying an average of $431 a week, exceeding federal goals. But the growing number of cases in which things have been going wrong have begun to capture more of the headlines. A Maximus child-support-collection program in Colorado has come under fire...
...Children (Random House; 783 pages; $29.95), David Halberstam takes up the narrative in early 1960, with the lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., that were the debut of a new civil rights generation, most of whose members were younger by five or 10 years than Martin Luther King Jr. and frustrated by the lack of change in the years after the Brown decision...
Kundun may be Martin Scorsese's most daring film to date. There isn't much talk in Kundun, and what talk there is isn't especially revealing or eloquent. However, this ceases to matter very much as the breathtaking cinematography tells its own story, accompanied by a sonorously haunting score by Philip Glass. Kundun's slow pace may cause occasional restlessness, but never boredom. It's too much of a feast for the eyes to lose its power of fascination, and its poetry of color, perspective and motion lingers long after what's actually said is forgotten. Lynn...
...Martin Scorsese (Kundun) Taxi Driver, for the red and checkered...