Word: virginia
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...group of Americans is still mad as hell at the Postal Service--its workers. The number of employee grievances awaiting arbitration rose 44% last year, a sign of mounting labor tension. The premium on efficiency has, according to the Washington Post, driven a few desperate workers in West Virginia to rig the independent audits of their on-time delivery. And in another burst of ghastly work-related violence, a Milwaukee, Wis., mail handler killed himself and a co-worker last month. Union leaders are becoming bellicose over what they call management's failure to share bonuses with workers. "The labor...
...past 15 years the U.S. has been in recession only eight months, a growth line like no other. "What we are living through is astonishing," he says. So go ahead and pinch yourself. It isn't a dream. If you've been in the market for three years, yes, Virginia, you've doubled your money. So, even though we don't know how long this will last, the best course may be simply to stay in stocks, particularly if you have 15 or more years until retirement. Consistently trying to time the market's ups and downs...
Christopher Kennedy, 34, has bucked two second-generation Kennedy trends, becoming a businessman and a Midwesterner. Today he helps run the Merchandise Mart, the Kennedys' downtown-Chicago trade center started by grandfather Joe. Max Kennedy, 32, a University of Virginia law school graduate, was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia for three years. Last fall he began business school at UCLA. Douglas Kennedy, 30, has switched over to what some Kennedys must consider the Other Side. He is a New York City-based reporter for the Fox News Channel. Youngest child Rory Kennedy, 29, is a documentary filmmaker...
Thousands of parents and school officials are calling county health offices to report that the standard arsenal of commercial lice-killing products seems to be having little effect. In Iowa, Virginia and Oklahoma, newspaper articles have discussed the merits of such home remedies as olive oil and vinegar. In Rhode Island, Idaho and Florida, parents are trading tips on smearing their kids' hair with vaseline, steam cleaning the carpets and storing teddy bears in the refrigerator. "It's creating a lot of havoc," says Wayne Kramer, the Nebraska state medical entomologist, who has received 125 calls since the beginning...
RankInstitution %Black Faculty 1 Emory University 5.1% 2 University of Michigan 4.8% 3 Vanderbilt University 4.1% 4 Dartmouth College 4.0% 5 Johns Hopkins University 3.7% 5 University of Virginia 3.7% 7 Brown University 3.6% 8 Columbia University 3.4% 9 Georgetown University 3.3% 9 University of Pennsylvania 3.3% 11 Washington University 3.1% 12 Cornell University 2.7% 13 Duke University 2.6% 13 Stanford University 2.6% 15 Northwestern University 2.4% 16 University of Notre Dame 2.2% 17 Yale University 2.1% 18 Harvard University 1.9% 18 MIT 1.9% 18 Princeton University 1.9% 18 University of Chicago 1.9% 22 Tufts University 1.6% 23 Rice University...