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...insurance company, which had heavy losses in 1984. Now Xerox is moving toward the land. During the next decade, it will oversee development of a residential and commercial community on 2,267 acres of prime real estate it owns along the Potomac River near Leesburg, in Loudoun County, Va. Total investment by developers: $8 billion to $10 billion. The site is expected to have 20 buildings to be used as headquarters of various corporations, as well as 1,800 homes selling...
...sorrow, fiddling with the formula for the 99-year-old beverage was an affront to patriotic pride and perhaps more. "Some people felt that a sacred symbol had been tampered with," said Robert Antonio, a University of Kansas sociologist. Glenwood Davis, marketing manager for Coca-Cola Bottling in Roanoke, Va., said that he received a letter from a woman who said, "There are only two things in my life: God and Coca-Cola. Now you have taken one of those things away from...
...weekly column for USA Today and does color commentary for a regional cable sports network. To lighten the load a bit, King has cut his Mutual show from five to four hours a night. That means he can usually get to bed by 4:30 a.m. at the Arlington, Va., condominium he shares with his daughter Chaia, 17. (King has been divorced three times.) The talk-show veteran is confident that he will recognize the signs of burnout if and when they show up. "I hope I never lose my curiosity," he says. "I hope I don't start interviewing...
...that brought increased democracy to the union and in 1974 negotiated a contract widely regarded as the best ever, but whose leadership was subsequently plagued by factional power struggles, rank-and-file dissension and finally the failing health that led to his 1979 resignation; of pneumonia; in Charleston, W. Va...
...stolen one. Miami police last month busted an $8 million cloning ring as part of an 18-month investigation that has so far expanded into seven other states and Canada and arrested dozens of suspects, including illegal-alien smugglers in Phoenix, Ariz., and drug traffickers in Virginia Beach, Va. Says Florida attorney general Charlie Crist: "It's a new method that makes [stolen cars] much harder to track...