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About one-third of the 10,383 students at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va., another Ford recipient, are black students seeking a four-year degree are getting help in filling out college applications and financial-aid forms and in selecting courses from members of the school's newly formed alumni association. Reynolds' alumni are also visiting every public high school in the city, where the enrollment is 90% black, seeking to recruit students of promise. Says Richard Starling, president of the alumni association: "We're like a funnel. We want to move minority students...
Douglas T. Ibach Reston, Va...
Hidden traps can exist for name makers. When Chevrolet marketed its Nova in Puerto Rico, the company discovered that the car's name can be read no va, which translates as "does not go." Chevrolet also found out that many American Indians refused to buy the Apache pickup truck because that tribe had been their traditional enemy. And fundamentalist Christians condemned the Dodge Demon. A few of the pitfalls are obvious. Royalty, for example, sometimes can be a profitable quality to evoke (Monarch, Grand Marquis, Crown Victoria), but there will probably never be an automobile called the Chevy Shah...
John F. Hughes Alexandria, Va...
...wake of the Milwaukee investigation, hundreds of companies and individual computer owners were scrambling to see whether their information was safe from computer tampering. "Our phone has literally been ringing off the hook," said Robert Campbell, president of Advanced Information Management in Woodbridge, Va., a consulting firm that advises banks and credit-card services on how to protect their computer information. Campbell and others in the computer security field, whose fees range up to $1,000 a day, say that since January there have been at least a dozen major cases of tampering or theft of computer data...