Word: va
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...some would say doomed--effort to move most welfare clients off the dole and into decent jobs. As a graduate of a six-week welfare-to-work program sponsored by Marriott Corp., Bradford has a foot on the ladder at the company's Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Va., where he cleans and sets up conference rooms for $7.60 an hour (vs. the current minimum wage of $4.75). He gets health insurance and profit sharing and will be eligible for stock options next year. "In the beginning I was doubtful," Bradford recalls. "I had started other training programs but never...
Just what is inappropriate is a messy issue, as citizens of Loudoun County, Va., a conservative enclave northwest of Washington, can attest. Last month, after six public hearings and over the objections of library staff, the county library board adopted the region's most restrictive Internet-access policy. Henceforth, the library will arm its computers with filters to censor obscene sites--the definition of obscenity, of course, being largely up to whichever filter Loudoun County ends up deciding to buy. Adults who want to cruise the Net sans filter will have to ask the librarian to call off the watchdogs...
...largest trading partners. We can best help by supporting Mexico's own efforts toward economic, social and political reform and by rejecting the attempts of some of our politicians and media to cast this largely admirable and complex country in one-dimensional terms. JOHN J. ST. JOHN Fairfax, Va...
DIED. ALBERT SCHOEPPER, 83, conductor who kept the Marine Band--the President's Own--in line and on key; in Alexandria, Va. Colonel Schoepper also played the diplomat at White House concerts: he once continued gamely when Winston Churchill burst into song to accompany the band...
...Ramseys' actions raised eyebrows among legal experts, who saw the moves as a way to capitalize on tension between the Boulder district attorney's office (which last week said it would dispatch a top assistant D.A. to consult with the FBI in Quantico, Va.) and the besieged local cops. Then too, the Ramseys' well-funded search might have another motive: it could serve the couple well with a future jury pool if one or both is ever charged in court...