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...least retain jobs. They were wrong. Volvo-GM closed a jointly owned plant (GM was the minority partner) in Orrville, Ohio, in 1996--just seven years after the county cut property and inventory taxes in half. Some 400 jobs were lost. The two automakers moved operations to Pulaski County, Va., where millions of dollars more in economic incentives awaited...
...speaks very softly, a hint of his native Richmond, Va., still audible in his vowels. "I also spent some time, although not much time, in a zero-degree freezer unit like the one Conrad works in in the novel." Did he actually witness firsthand a "workout" session such as the one Charlie endures at PlannersBanc? "No," he says in the tone of a reporter stymied. "I tried everything, promised to dress like a banker and keep quiet, but I never could get into one. Still, I have five sources for that scene, and I know I'm right...
...Charlottesville, Va., Thomas Jones ran for a 117 yards and two TDs as Virginia (6-1, 4-1 ACC) bounced back from a loss to Georgia Tech with a 23-13 win over N.C. State...
Giving away school supplies in a mock-retail setting is the brainchild of retailer Shannon Carter of Cincinnati, Ohio. Enrolled in a 1995 business-leadership program aimed at generating ideas to improve that city, she heard of a program housed in a Richmond, Va., warehouse called Crayons to Computers and decided "we could take that warehouse and make it fun." Carter named her free store Crayons to Computers too. "This is not brain surgery," she observes, "just a giant recycling project...
Thanks, Oprah, for being you and for inspiring women all over the world. Lead on, ringmaster! NECIL B. OLIVER Powhatan, Va...