Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials of Philip Morris Inc., maker of Virginia Slims, and R.J. Reynolds, producer of More cigarettes--brands heavily marketed to women--could not be reached for comment because their New York offices were closed yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday...
...Virginia Slims advertising has featured the slogan, "You've come a long way, baby...
...among the Democrats in a New York City hotel last week was painful. They had gathered to discuss new approaches that the party should take toward one of America's most intractable social problems: the self- destructive cycle of unemployment, family disintegration and crime that has created what former Virginia Governor Charles Robb called a "permanent caste of destitute young men and women" in the nation's ghettos. One of the hosts was New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who was cast into the role of liberal standard-bearer by his stirring "shining city on a hill" speech...
...sort. John Lehman, 43, is not only a Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time at "deck-plate level," getting a feel for the concerns of ordinary seamen and petty officers. The Secretary acts on the gripes too. After a training week earlier this year, Lehman ordered an investigation into...
Although speeding is, by definition, against the law, only Connecticut, Virginia and Washington have made it illegal to use radar detectors. But even in those jurisdictions, the bans are sparsely enforced because of legal challenges concerning, among other things, the freedom of access to radar frequencies...