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...opportunities in service industries. Four years ago, accountant Greg Smith, 36, lost his $55,000-a-year position as an audit manager for a food-service firm that trimmed its payroll. After a succession of part-time work and other jobs, Smith joined the consulting firm Grossberg Co. in Maryland last summer as an auditor who sniffs out financial fraud for clients who have pared back their own accounting departments. Today Smith figures that between his salary and his cut of hourly billings, he has nearly doubled his old income. Because of downsizing, he says, "a lot of companies eliminated...
...count of 500,000 absentee ballots that theoretically could throw the race to GOP challenger Michael Huffington. Judge Coleman Swart said he ordered the pause to try to corroborate a Republican radio talk show host's allegations that undocumented aliens and minors had sent in fraudulent ballots. Meanwhile in Maryland, the gubernatorial contest between Democrat Parris Glendening and Republican Ellen Sauerbrey is down to a snail's-pace absentee ballot count in two counties -- caused in part by thousands of detailed challenges recently mounted by Sauerbrey.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
Many states already have seat belt laws--California, Washington, New York, Michigan, Connecticut, North Carolina and Maryland, to name a few. Sadly, Massachusetts doesn't have the greatest record on mandating the use of seat belts. In 1986, 54 percent of the state's citizens voted against a similar measure...
...decision with national implications, a federal appeals court struck down a special scholarship program set up for blacks by the University of Maryland as an inappropriate remedy for past discrimination there. The ruling challenges the Clinton Administration policy of favoring such minority scholarships to promote diversity on college campuses. The university said it would appeal...
...These cards are like whiskey in the hands of an alcoholic," says Dave Speights, a Maryland-based consumer-protection expert. "The only difference is that here the alcoholic is a relatively irresponsible twenty-year...