Word: virginia
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Brown, Penn State and the University of West Virginia were cited by Costin as the top teams in the meet...
...methyl isocyanate unit, which employs about 40 of the 3,000 workers at the West Virginia plant, will reopen with a number of new protection features. Among the improvements: a $175,000 computer system to provide instant notification of leaks and pressure changes. Company investigators are also examining each of the unit's existing safety systems. Governor Arch Moore praised Union Carbide's restart announcement as welcome news. Institute townspeople were pleased too. Said Charles White, 60, a longtime resident: "MIC is one of the bread-and-butter products for Union Carbide. I think they need that product...
...their more personal items were read off, Virginia Jensen wept. There was a loveseat, a silver oil lamp, brass candlesticks, a woman's rocker. When Baum cited "an oak bedroom set," she lost control. "These are family heirlooms," she shouted. "They've been in our family for 150 years. They're not for sale." But they were. Under the rules of the auction, the articles could not be split up; all of them would go to the highest single bidder. A lawyer for the Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed...
...devastating," Virginia Jensen said. "David has farmed all his life. He started milking cows when he was five years old. It's a family-type thing, a way of life. Every time David goes out to drive the tractor now, he leaves a piece of his heart out there." The Jensens owe another $400,000 in mortgages on their land. Their 1,120 acres, on which they have raised mostly wheat for the past 27 years, will be sold at a similar involuntary auction this week...
...parlay of the slick and scholarly is unusual, particularly for a beginning writer. Odder still, only a peek at the copyright page can confirm just which stories reached the mass or middling audiences; Easy in the Islands is a whole unified by consistent parts. Shacochis, 33, grew up in Virginia and earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in English at the University of Missouri, where he now serves as a visiting writer in residence. He also received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa's writing program. He buttressed these academic credentials with extended periods of playing hooky...