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...power. This season, two of the classical world's most renowned musicians have been recruited to revive the city's symphony and opera. Leonard Slatkin, the internationally acclaimed conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, has been named to lead the 66-year-old National Symphony, while Placido Domingo, one-third of the international franchise known as the Three Tenors, has become the new artistic director of the 41-year-old Washington Opera. "To have two such major names take up residence raises the level substantially," says Richard Hancock, executive director of the National Symphony. "Clearly it is an exciting...
...West Virginia, where one-third of all homicides are domestic, that change has been slow to come. In 1994 it became the last state in the nation to enact a "probable cause" provision permitting police officers to arrest batterers on the spot, even when the victim refuses to press charges--a law that domestic-violence advocates consider essential. The state's rural nature makes it hard to get services to the women who need them. And though the laws and access to the court system are now up to, or even ahead of, those in other states, even some...
...one-third of those receiving tests at MDPH-supported sites like Cambridge City Hospital were college-age students according to Linda J. Frazier, UHS health educator...
...administration slashed OIT's staff by more than one-third, altered its mission and even changed its name to University Information Systems...
...Some auto dealers say consumers are savvy enough to read the fine print before signing a deal, but the FTC says it wants to protect consumers from being lured in by misleading ads. For many consumers used to purchasing their vehicle outright, leasing is a new financial arrangement. Currently, one-third of all new cars are leased rather than purchased; that could become on-half by the year 2000. Next up: an FTC review the advertising of other car companies for similar practices...