Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rules in order * to survive. "I think we're waking up and deciding something needs to be done," says Carol Silvus, president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs. Some groups are holding more events at night and on weekends and trying to broaden their membership base. The Virginia federation has established an organization for deaf women, while New Jersey has formed a group for the mentally retarded. All are working hard to attract younger members. Ironically, many hard-pressed clubs may find that a return to the activist spirit of the past holds the greatest promise...
...believe were necessary." Sources involved in financing the project estimate that the show's design elements alone cost nearly $4 million, including about $1 million each for costumes, sound and the elaborate hydraulically powered sets. About a third of Jujamcyn's $500,000 investment was spent on repainting its Virginia Theater black, to suit Carrie's somber theme, and on installing electrical wiring for effects like the laser barrage at the climax, when Carrie burns down her school...
Most of Washington, including a growing number of his fellow conservatives, wishes the Attorney General would quietly leave the field. But like General Ulysses Grant, a warrior Meese greatly admires, he seems determined, as Grant said down in Virginia, "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." On that he is backed up so far by the President, who is being placed yet again in the awkward position of choosing between what is best for his presidency and protecting a loyal spear carrier...
Ogene Davis of Atlanta faithfully attended a black church through high school but became deeply troubled that "good" Christians could tolerate a socially and racially unjust world. "Christianity was not working for blacks," he concluded. Karima Omar Kamouneh (nee Virginia Marston) of Burbank, Calif., was raised by devout Episcopalians but felt plausibility was somehow lacking. "I had milked everything out of Christianity, and it still didn't make sense," she relates. Dawud Wong Chun, a Chinese American in Brooklyn, says simply that he thirsted for a "pious, virtuous, fruitful life...
...pursued jobs more aggressively. Applicants from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mailed out resumes to as many as 50 employers each, instead of the 20 or so that most members of last year's class targeted. An all-day career seminar at the University of Virginia (total enrollment: 11,096) drew a standing-room- only crowd of more than 550 students, even though it was held on a Saturday. Says Larry Simpson, U.Va.'s placement director: "I've been here 20 years, and I have never seen students as career conscious as they are today...