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...separatist struggles, much less those pursued by arms. The hard men of the IRA and ETA are relics of a past era, but it's not hard to see why they cling to that past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift from those who're good with their fists to those who're good with words. And as the current standoff over the long-silent IRA weapons shows, the hard men are sometimes reluctant to cede the role they play in an armed insurgency...
...care ombudsman for the State of Washington, whose office gets about 1,250 complaints a year. The HHS study found that 25% of the facilities that purport to offer the highest level of services had only 1 caregiver for every 20 residents on the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift and just 1 for every 34 residents overnight. "Once the facilities are built, their main expenses are staff and food," says Catherine Hawes, the national study's lead researcher. "So when the companies squeeze, that's what gets shortchanged." Hawes also points out that most states require more training...
...nation's largest securities firm when current CEO David Komansky retires in three years. That would make O'Neal, 49, the first black CEO of a major Wall Street brokerage house. Reared on a farm in Wedowee, Ala., O'Neal attended a one-room schoolhouse and worked the late shift at a General Motors plant in Georgia before landing at Harvard Business School. He joined Merrill as an investment banker in 1986 and later served as CFO and brokerage chief...
...this case, is what divides the U.S. into 435 congressional districts. Every ten years, using new census information, legislatures across the country redraw lines for their states? congressional districts to accommodate shifts in population. What changes did the 2000 count turn up? The new numbers reveal a continuing shift of population from the Northeast to the South and West. For example, New York and Pennsylvania, both Democrat-friendly states, lost two congressional seats each. Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Mississippi are also losing one seat each. On the other hand, Republican-friendly states like Arizona, Texas, Florida...
...order to change this image, as well as shift the national dialogue toward the left, ACS will try to capitalize on the strategy which it said brought the conservatives great success...