Word: va
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half with the 25th Infantry Division near the Viet Cong stronghold of Cu Chi, has been denied benefits because his job description shows he was a radar operator. Yurong, now known simply as Nano, was pressed into service, he says, as an infantryman throughout his tour. The VA grants that he has PTSD but says he must have contracted it elsewhere. Such arguments enrage V.F.W. activist Cowan. "When you first go to the VA, you are denied benefits. Fifty percent of the vets don't go back. The second time you are denied, you lose another 25%," he says...
Eager to tune in the overseas news, Americans bought shortwave radios and small portable TVs. Bookstores were jammed, their customers snapping up almost anything about Saddam and the Middle East. In Arlington, Va., Roy's Hobby & Craft Shop was selling the new $16 board game, Kuwait War. Superstitious types were buying crystals and such books as Nostradamus and Armageddon, Oil and the Mideast Crisis...
...fast-growing form of employee health benefit, such employee-assistance programs are now available to workers at four out of five FORTUNE 500 firms. Among the largest providers: Human Affairs International, based in Murray, Utah, and American Psychiatric Management of Arlington, Va. The confidential services offer the kind of comfort, caring and guidance once sought from relatives, neighbors and churches. The callers are typically seeking help with problems that include alcoholism, loneliness, marital stress and layoffs. The help-line workers provide some comforting words, make an initial assessment of the problem and refer callers to professional aid ranging from self...
...fact, the FDIC has consistently covered all depositors in large bank failures to prevent runs. "The government can get away with relatively small- scale pocket picking," says Bert Ely, a financial consultant based in Alexandria, Va. "But on a major scale you cannot do it. The consequences are just too significant...
Take Stephanie, the senior co-Captain of the Harvard women's team. Although the McLean, Va., native was a relative latecomer to the game at age 14, she was quickly able to transfer her extensive gymnastics accomplishments into squash achievements. A year later, she was one of the top 10 under-17 players in the nation, And by age 18, she was a top-seeded freshman on Harvard's varsity squad...