Word: virginia
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Your shocking but courageous expose should rouse all Americans to what is going on in our country. The shame is that these powerful corporations and ambitious politicians could have decided to advance justice and decency, but instead they chose greed and corruption as their standard. VIRGINIA WEBB South Royalton...
...consistency of their products, parts of the industry resemble a Wild West boomtown, where some 800 lightly regulated U.S. companies compete ferociously with fly-by-night hucksters. "When you open a bottle of nutritional supplements, you don't know what's inside," says Jeffrey Delafuente, a pharmacy professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. "There may be some ingredients not listed. You do not know how much active ingredient is in each tablet. They can make all kinds of claims that may not be accurate...
...looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the Governors, including Michigan's JOHN ENGLER, have said in public that it's time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats, the Governors will discuss making an elected official, perhaps Engler himself or Virginia's JIM GILMORE, the G.O.P.'s new front man, while a more seasoned Washington fund raiser could run the party day to day. Leading the race for the No. 2 spot is WAYNE BERMAN, the finance chairman of the Republican Governors Association. The full Republican National Committee does not vote...
...been put on probation and 10 states never return to ex-offenders their voting rights. Although it is possible for ex-offenders in these states to regain the vote, in practice, it happens rarely; an executive order or pardon from the governor can be required. According to the report, Virginia has 200,000 ex-offenders who are permanently disenfranchised; only 404 of them had their votes restored in 1996 and 1997. For most, the loss of voting rights is irrevocable: It is a political death sentence...
...Virginia turnout, the nation's lowest, where there were no statewide races...