Word: va
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...biggest impact of the merger could come from the pressure it exerts ( on other large banks. Just one day after the New York behemoths unveiled their agreement, C&S/Sovran, a regional firm based in Atlanta and Norfolk, Va., said it would press ahead in merger talks with North Carolina's NCNB to create the third largest U.S. banking company. In California experts said merger candidates include San Francisco's Wells Fargo and the ailing First Interstate and Security Pacific banks in Los Angeles. Any pairing among those would create a formidable new West Coast giant...
...Three days after Fiers entered his plea, the New York Times disclosed that Walsh possesses tapes and transcripts of hundreds of telephone conversations between CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and agents in Central America. The talks occurred during the period when North, former Air Force General Richard Secord and his business partner Albert Hakim were operating their secret arms pipeline. The tapes -- which have been in Walsh's hands for three years -- were recorded on a system that George installed at the agency's operations center in the early to mid-1980s...
That marked the second victory this year: in February the VA awarded similar payments to vets with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and soft-tissue sarcoma, two forms of cancer. But the government continues to reject claims that Agent Orange causes lung cancer, and veterans argue that the VA imposes so many restrictions that few survivors will actually benefit...
...waving signs outside serial killer Ted Bundy's execution--signs of the "Burn, Bundy, Burn" and "Bundy BBQ" variety. Even more than Faces of Death, killing bad guys appeals to our basest instincts. That's why Bernie Goetz became such a hero. That's why Gov. Douglas Wilder (D-VA), an opponent of the death penalty, has decided that his political ambitions would be destroyed by granting clemency to convicts on Death...
Even though the economy is limping along, pilot-training schools are flying high. One California flight-school administrator, noting a surge in applications, believes that "the success of the air war in the Middle East has caught people's imaginations." Jim Haynes, president of Janelle Aviation in Leesburg, Va., says his number of applicants has quadrupled since the war. Remember when the Watergate investigation sent thousands of young Americans to journalism school...