Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residents at the mercy of all U.S. residents even in matters of purely local concern. According to Rep. David Marriot (R-Utah), "Only Congress has the right to decide what kind of activity we want in Washington, D.C.... If they [Washingtonians] don't like it they can move to Maryland or Virginia...
...representation for the city spend much of their time debunking widespread myths about the capital. Far from being a "one interest town" or a colony of bureaucrats, more than two-thirds of the city's workers are non-federal employees. In fact, many affluent government employees live in Maryland and Virginia suburbs while the population of D.C. itself is predominantly Black and lower class...
...Maryland Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes, who is on the receiving end of a $650,000 NCPAC attack, has made the organization's tactics a major issue in the campaign. His success in running against NCPAC has frustrated his real opponent, Republican Lawrence Hogan. In a televised debate last week, after Sarbanes again tried to hang NCPAC around Hogan's neck, Hogan threw up his arms and declared: "I hereby denounce NCPAC!" Says Hogan's campaign manager, George Nesterczuk: "They've certainly provided Sarbanes with a convenient issue...
...embarrassing parody of Big Business in action. Seemingly unconcerned about the best interests of their stockholders or employees, some of America's top executives were threatening each other with multibillion-dollar stock ploys, while jetting cross-country for clandestine strategy sessions, tying up courtrooms from Michigan to Maryland and wasting millions of dollars in the process...
College-admission officers everywhere still take SAT scores very seriously. However, research published in September by James Grouse, an education professor at the University of Delaware, and Dale Trusheim, acting director of admissions at Maryland's Washington College, found that high school grades are every bit as good an indicator of college success as the SAT. Says Grouse: "In terms of predicting who will graduate from college, the SAT adds nothing over high school grades alone." Grouse and Jencks, in a previous study, concluded that the SAT, as a so-called aptitude test, encourages students to believe they...