Word: va
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...recent months Josephson has conducted seminars for such diverse groups as the New York State Bar Association, Levi Strauss & Co. and the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. In January he spent eight days in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., teaching 55 senior executives of the Internal Revenue Service, who in turn will pass on what they have learned to the agency's 14,000 managers. Alaska asked him to draft a model ethics bill last year that is still pending in the state's legislature, and Tennessee is considering its own reforms based on the Alaska model...
...workers at a new Corning ceramics plant in Blacksburg, Va., earn bonuses for, among other things, pulling blemished materials from assembly lines before they can go into kilns. While starting workers at the plant make $8.60 an hour, or about 40 cents less than those at Corning facilities with traditional pay plans, the Blacksburg workers made at least an additional 72 cents an hour in bonuses last year. Three-quarters of that gain reflected the fact that workers met their production targets, and the rest was pegged to improvement in the company's financial results...
EVERY YEAR since 1973, bills have been proposed to repeal or modify the War Powers Resolution. Not one has become law. The most recent effort to fix the flawed legislation was an amendment proposed by Sens. Robert, Byrd (D-Va.), Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), John Warner (R-Va.) and George Mitchell (D-Maine) in May 1988. The amendment would have made two major adjustments...
...work moved north after the Postal Service decided to farm out the job to Stamp Venturers of Fairfax, Va. The firm, in turn, apparently decided that no printing company in the U.S. could perform the work. But patriots, take heart! The stamps will be printed on American-made paper...
...estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle for getting rich, rather than as just shelter, and it became an obsession. Author Ann Beattie, a chronicler of the baby boom, fled Manhattan in the mid-1980s for Charlottesville, Va., declaring, "I could not spend the rest of my life listening to people talk about real estate. It's a constant, boring, hysterical subject...