Word: weldon
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...basically say we are at war," Representative Curtis Weldon told CNN this week following closed-door hearings he held to study recent waves of cyber-attacks on the Pentagon's computer networks. Well, not quite. The hearings did reveal a new and "more systemic" pattern of assaults, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, but nothing that should cause the nation to panic. "The Pentagon is simply learning that hacker probes are a cost of doing business over the Internet," he says. "These probes will continue to happen, and the military is just going to have to put up better cyber...
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...Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was quick to voice its opinion on the matter. The day after the Crimson article was published James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the NAACP, sent a telegram to Harvard President Lowell and the board of overseers of the University. It stated...
...site in Wayne, N.J., contaminated with radioactive waste. The company has agreed to chip in $32 million. The government estimates it will cost as much as $200 million to scrub up a zinc-smelter site in Palmerton, Pa. The tab for cleaning up radioactive waste, at a site in Weldon Spring, Mo., is put at $800 million...
...your own expense is the dirty little secret of the teaching profession. Informal studies suggest that these modestly paid public servants spend $200 to $1,200 annually. "There's probably not a teacher in America who doesn't do it," observes Mattie Tyson, principal of Chicago's James Weldon Johnson Elementary School...