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...have designated themselves as having a disability. The company tries to work with people where and when they need it, Hastings adds. "The company gave me an opportunity when I felt I didn't have any options," says Deanne Dirksen, 24, a department assistant based in Louisville, Ky., who is legally blind from multiple sclerosis. To enable her to do her job, Sprint supplied Dirksen with a computer-software program called ZoomText that magnifies the print on her computer screen, and she also uses a closed-circuit TV for written material...
...schoolboys, ages 11 and 13, killed five people and wounded 15 at a school in (a) Pearl, Miss. (b) Jonesboro, Ark. (c) West Paducah, Ky. (d) Stamps...
...illustrates another corporate-welfare story that TIME encountered repeatedly. After failing to keep a facility up to date, a company claims a plant is "archaic" and threatens to close it unless government officials come up with incentives to help pay for modernization. That is what happened in Louisville, Ky., where a much larger conglomerate, General Electric Co., said that to meet profit goals, its plant had to be modernized--with taxpayer dollars. This from a company that appears at the top of the lists of the "best managed" corporations in America, whose revenue last year reached $91 billion and whose...
...daddy Cassius Sr.'s maddening braggadocio sold tickets, captivated journalists and drove opponents clear up the wall. The phrase "I am the greatest" seems to have been almost Ali's first words, but the joke was that the words were absolutely true. The sweet little motormouth from Louisville, Ky., was about to become the greatest fighter in history, fast as a flyweight, strong as an ox and sly as a fox, with time left over to recite poetry between punches...
...worth some $250 million. (Papa John's stock tripled from 1993 to 1997 but has recently been down some 20% from its 52-week high.) Schnatter and his wife and three children live in a brick-and-stone mansion set on nearly 16 landscaped acres in suburban Louisville, Ky. One neighbor Schnatter probably doesn't call on: David Novak, the former boss of Pizza Hut and current president and vice chairman of Pizza Hut parent Tricon Global Restaurants, who lives not far away...