Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Labor reporter Frank W.A. Swoboda, who writes for Business Week in Washington, said Friday he is one of the "original college dropouts," because he failed to graduate from Virginia Military Institute...
...legal fight over minimum charges is far from over. Handing down its own ruling in the Goldfarb case this month, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Virginia state bar association, as a quasi-official body, is immune from such suits. The court also endorsed two other defenses: that local lawyers making title searches do not sufficiently affect interstate commerce and that the law and other "learned professions" are exempt from antitrust regulation. The Oregon bar will rely on similar defenses. Justice lawyers are undeterred. "We simply believe the Fourth Circuit is wrong," says Bruce Wilson...
...took over his patients' bank accounts, charged them a high private rate until their resources were exhausted, then kept them on at the lower rates paid by Medicare and Medicaid. Other operators increase their profit margins by tacking extra charges onto already high bills. Mendelson reports that one Virginia nursing home listed charges of $3 per day for care of bedsores, which probably resulted from staff neglect in the first place...
...five-month selection process includes several intermediary screenings and culminates in what Naples described as a "total immersion process" when the National Finalists spend three days prior to the final selection with the selection Commission in a Virginia mansion...
...will the public respond? Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia had his doubts. On a recent road trip, he said, he found that no fewer than 63% of all drivers were exceeding the still-in-effect 55 m.p.h. national speed limit. Added Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of Washington: "There is no direct evidence to support the contention that by raising the price you are going to ration the amount of gasoline that will be available." On the other hand, Congress and the Nixon Administration are extremely reluctant to impose such mandatory conservation measures as gasoline rationing...