Word: va
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the past to the future of Washington from atop the Tower Club, a posh, crusted-sea-bass kind of eatery crowning an office building in Tysons Corner, Va. Barely visible in the distance is the 555-ft.-high Washington Monument, looking like a gray toothpick far out on the horizon. But right down below, amid miles of suburban shopping malls and carpet outlets and car dealerships, is a place that's becoming as important as the formal capital of the U.S., a place that's doing something traditional Washington has never done before: generating billions in private wealth...
...Linda Marie Chandler filed suit after she was fired for refusing to wear bicycle tights at Champions sports bar in Tysons Corner, Va. The bar revised its dress code so waitresses can wear baggy shorts...
...work is being done on the home turf of some of Washington's key lawmakers. Boeing's Huntington Beach, Calif., facility, for example, is located in the district of Republican Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. The Alabama district of Democrat Robert Cramer Jr., of the VA, HUD and Independent Agencies subcommittee, is home to the Marshall Space Flight Center. Whether scattering space-station work this way has changed individual lawmakers' minds is impossible to say, but Congress has clearly grown to like the project. In 1994, the station's one-vote funding margin grew...
...late last week, FBI officials insisted the only thing Carnivore has bloodied is the bureau's reputation. They blame the politically incorrect name on a couple of FBI computer engineers who toil deep in the bowels of a classified facility on the tightly secured FBI Academy campus in Quantico, Va., and who were trying to convey that they had refined an older, less discriminating e-mail search program called Omnivore. The moniker was never run past Washington-based officials devoted to burnishing the bureau's image - and ducking trouble. "Yeah," one FBI official said glumly. "We're looking...
Growing up in the Garden State, Bargmann developed an affinity for befouled terrain during drives past the industrial dumps in New Jersey's Meadowlands. After studying landscape architecture at Harvard, Bargmann, who lives and teaches in Charlottesville, Va., became one of the rare yet growing number of landscape architects interested in doing more than just covering up abandoned sites by turning them into golf courses. Instead, she combines an archaeologist's reverence for the land's past, an environmentalist's concern for its future and an artist's appreciation of its present to create a new kind of public space...