Word: virginia
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Founded in 1810 and settled by Quakers who left Virginia and the Carolinas because they opposed slavery, Wilmington remains a farming town, not a tourist mecca or fashionably quaint bedroom community. Corn has always been king here--an hour southwest of Columbus, an hour northeast of Cincinnati, 45 minutes southeast of Dayton--but now the overnight-shipping giant Airborne Express shares the crown. In 1980 Airborne turned a decommissioned Air Force base on the outskirts of town into its national hub, and the sleepy town's fortunes were changed. Before Airborne, the unemployment rate was 9.8%; two-thirds of Wilmington...
Danny Glover, Virginia Madsen and Mickey Rourke are solid in their supporting roles. Matt Damon, however, isn't given much of a chance to show off his acting. Unlike McConaughey in A Time to Kill, Damon has to deal with a character void of nuance, subtlety and originality. His personality is best summed up in his much-repeated mantra, "I want to expose these people." Damon, struggling under the burden of such hackneyed lines, is given little chance to show sensitivity or idiosyncrasy. Over the course of the film, Rudy becomes less the hero and more of a stock supporting...
EPILOGUE: The two turkeys are taken to their retirement shed at a model farm in a Virginia park, to share quarters and two meals a day and keep company with last year's birds (the only ex-Top Toms still living...
...What deep pockets can do for novice politicians is boost their familiarity and fund-raising chops for the next go-around. Forbes has emerged as a front runner for the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination in 2000. Mark Warner, a cellular-phone tycoon who plowed $10.3 million into his unsuccessful Virginia Senate bid, is the Democrats' hot prospect for Senator in 2000 or Governor in 2001. And Millner has a head start on patching things up with the farmers...
Tracking brain waves to detect awareness during surgery has been a dream for years, but technology to date has not met the challenge. Your report raised patients' anxiety, and you may have created unwarranted optimism that a solution has been found. MICHAEL F. MULROY, M.D. Department of Anesthesiology Virginia Mason Medical Center Seattle...