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...because of--lower rims, spandex uniforms and a much smaller ball. The A.B.L., which operates in smaller markets during the fall and winter, is known as a players' league; it pays more--the average salary is $80,000 a year--and boasts of having the best players (Olympians Dawn Staley, Teresa Edwards and Katrina McClain). Playing in cities like San Jose, Calif., Richmond, Va., and Columbus, Ohio, the A.B.L. averaged 3,500 fans a game with very little TV exposure. By one estimate, the A.B.L. spent $6 million on salaries this year and $1.5 million on marketing. The W.N.B.A...
...allocates livers for transplant, with people in one city waiting months while patients elsewhere can expect them in less than two weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services was ordered to take a new look at who should get to the top of the list. Last spring Carolyn Staley wrote to chide the President about his promise that improving education would be his legacy. Was he aware, she wondered, that he had produced a budget that would cut spending for adult literacy to a level below what it was in the Bush Administration? The next thing she knew, Staley...
...code was George Bush's, but Clinton adopted it shortly after he was elected and soon added a fax number as well. Clinton has given it out to strangers when he wants to hear their stories in full. But most often it's a way for people like Staley to bypass regular channels, which once left her in tears after she'd poured quarter after quarter into a phone at Washington's National Airport. From the day she was handed the magic number, Staley has been faxing a stream of jokes, gossip and encouragement. "Hello from one essential government worker...
Little is known about the alleged price-fixing scheme. But a federal grand jury in Chicago has cast a wide net to determine who might have participated. In recent weeks, the grand jury has subpoenaed possible evidence of collusion from agribusiness behemoths Cargill, CPC International and A.E. Staley. The products in question: high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener found in everything from Coca-Cola to cake; lysine, an amino acid used in feeding poultry and hogs; and citric acid, which adds tartness to jams and jellies, among many other uses. Some experts speculated that investigators are focusing on the possibility...
Royal Plankenhorn, a member of the United Paperworkers International Union, described a strike against the A.E. Staley Company, which operates a corn processing plant in Decatur...