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Though the requisite signatures were delivered to the Department of Motor Vehicles by March 1997, the “Choose Life” plate was not available until August 2000, when the Florida Supreme Court threw out an obstructionist lawsuit by the National Organization of Women. Today there are 37,000 Florida “Choose Life” plates and $1,480,000 has been raised to promote adoption and other pro-birth solutions. Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma have also recently put such plates on the road as well...
...base, the task of emotional preparedness falls to the social workers and the wives who lead the family-readiness groups attached to every company. They explain how to get car-insurance rates lowered without dropping the deployed spouse from the policy. They've arranged for the local department of motor vehicles to offer driving tests in the many languages of Army wives, like Korean. They instruct families about what not to stick in the care packages they send over: any overtly religious books or objects likely to give offense to Kuwaiti Muslims, any pork products, any magazine with revealing pictures...
...innovative advertising executive who pioneered the money-saving strategy of buying multiyear packages of local television time (for clients like Ford Motor), Pool, 54, recently left Mindshare to take over North American operations for Universal McCann. She will manage local buys nationwide for a number of heavy hitters, including General Motors and Lowe's, and, of course, will try to make some rain...
...Ford Motor Co. and Key Span, a natural gas provider, invited Harvard to test-drive Ford’s Crown Victoria Natural Gas Vehicle for a three-week trial period that ended last week. The black unmarked police car is identical to the normal gasoline-run cars used by HUPD...
...boomers. Almost 200 synthetic fields will be laid in the U.S. alone this year, compared with fewer than 50 in 1999. Public schools and parks in Europe and the U.S. now use the new synthetic surface, as do top European soccer teams such as Britain's Manchester United. The Motor City Bowl in Detroit and the Seattle Bowl were played on the synthetic grass this year, and at least 20 colleges have made the switch. Four NFL stadiums--in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle--use synthetic grass, and several others, including Giants Stadium, outside New York City, are considering...