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When the chief executives from 70 of America's largest corporations gathered last weekend at the tony Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va., for a semiannual meeting of the Business Council, their mood was understandably relaxed and upbeat. The strongest economic recovery in three decades has helped produce a 23% upsurge in corporate profits this year. Between rounds of golf, tennis matches and closed-door briefings from top Government officials, the executives expressed confidence that the business climate will remain favorable, at least through...
...that launch four-year-olds armed with the alphabet. Schools are responding by fortifying the play-oriented kindergarten curriculum with weighty matters like arithmetic and reading. "Parents now want their children to bring home a stack of papers," says Marilyn Arwood, principal of Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va. "They want hard proof that the child has learned something...
...Contracts with each school [are negotiated] individually," according to Page. He added that whenever Harvard travels to Williamsburg, Va to take on William & Mary, students must pay full price for those tickets...
Martel, a strategic modelist with a defense contractor called Systems Research Applications (SRA) of Arlington, Va., collaborated with Lt. Col. Ret. Paul Savage, a professor of Political Science at St. Anselm's College, on the model...
...Williams, 55, lives in a neat, integrated neighborhood. She is not poor, but neither is she glad about the state of the nation. A New York Times survey last fall found that only 35% of blacks said they were "very patriotic," compared with 56% of whites. In Fairmont, W. Va., Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton's home town, people are brimming with pride, of course. Yet unemployment is running at 10%, and as Mayor Gregory Hinton says, "Patriotism does not feed the family...