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Placed on the ballot through the voter initiative process at the hands of Ron Unz, a conservative Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Proposition 227 promotes English-only instruction for students with limited English skills, who comprise more than one fifth of the 5.5 million population. Instead of promising students whose first tongue is not English bilingual education, the new system will force all students not proficient in English into a one-year crash course in the English language. After the year-long course, parents who want to keep their children in bilingual education programs could attempt to do so by seeking...
Amazingly, in no time at all, my careful attention to the stocks seemed to be paying off: Just two weeks after the KSF bought shares in it, Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) signed a new chief executive officer, and the stock responded by jumping a whopping 27 percent...
...software capable of encoding messages so securely that police can't crack them. A law proposed by the FBI would mandate an electronic peephole in all encryption programs so that government agents can read your files. The FBI claims this is necessary to protect against criminals. But Silicon Valley chiefs see this as a threat, and are equipping Gillespie with a multimillion-dollar lobbying and media budget. Joining him to woo Democrats is lobbyist JACK QUINN, former counsel to Bill Clinton and ex-chief of staff to Al Gore...
...opinion surveys, California voters favor, 2 to 1, an initiative on the June ballot that would dismantle bilingual classes and replace them with a year of intensive English before immigrants are absorbed into the mainstream. The measure, called English for Children, is sponsored by Ron Unz, a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former G.O.P. candidate for Governor...
Netscape today announced heavy casualties in its Browser Wars with Microsoft: The Silicon Valley start-up expects to post a surprise $85 million loss for the last quarter. Company officials blamed the 88-cent-per-share loss on the collapse of Pacific markets, as well as "competitive pressure" on its client-side browser software...