Albany computer error prompts 47000 name rechecks
Albany officials scramble to recheck 47000 names after a software error questioned the accuracy of security checks on prospective day care workers foster parents and adoptive parents since November 15 1997. New York attorney general Vacco faces criticism over a $2.50 coupon inserted into 1.3 million Sunday newspapers May 17 across 16 counties as part of a $4.2 million settlement with grocers and Wegmans amid reelection scrutiny.
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Court to ease requirements for out of state lawyers
New York's top court unveiled a plan to relax some academic prerequisites for out of state lawyers seeking the New York bar exam. The proposed changes, the first in decades, aim to reflect evolving law school curricula and the demand from foreign and other state lawyers to practice in New York.
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Senate GOP challenges tobacco bill cost estimates
Senate Republicans released an analysis pegging the 25 year cost of the anti smoking bill at 755.3 to 868.9 billion in current dollars, far above White House and sponsor estimates due to inflation. The study notes the tax up to 1.10 per pack and FDA powers while prosecutors probe Brown and Williamson in a separate fraud case.
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Postal Service seeks 1 cent stamp price rise to 34 cents
The U S Postal Service asks the independent Postal Rate Commission to approve a 1 cent increase, lifting first class stamps from 33 to 34 cents. The move follows a 32 cent rate set January 1 1995 after a year with nearly 1 billion dollars in losses.
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SBC to buy Ameritech to form dominant regional Bell firm
SBC Communications set to acquire Ameritech in a 1.31 to 1 stock swap, creating the largest local phone operator in the United States. The deal, worth over 25 percent above Ameritech's closing price, would reassemble elements of the old Bell system, drawing regulatory scrutiny yet signaling a new wave of scale driven telecom consolidation.
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Tornado Lifts Mobile Home. Woman 90 Dies in South Carolina
A 90-year-old woman, Eva Cornish, died after a tornado touched down near the South Carolina coast, lifted her mobile home 40 feet, and dropped it ten miles north of Charleston. The two mile wide storm damaged about 100 homes and injured seven as NWS officials noted a family of tornadoes from the system.
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South Carolina
Eva Cornish
Steve Bruecke
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Congress seeks 350 million land sales spark opposition
In Western states Uncle Sam owns vast tracts and Congress plans to auction about 350 million dollars in federal acreage over five years to fund endangered species protections. Environmentalists, Clinton officials, state land managers, and some ranchers oppose the plan, calling it a dangerous fire sale and a threat to property. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt decried the proposal as not a good idea.
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Gephardt demands Burton removal as investigator
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt says his party will demand a vote on ousting Rep. Dan Burton as lead campaign finance investigator if Republicans do not remove him. Burton, a Republican from Indiana, says GOP leaders support him despite Democratic attacks over his handling of taped calls involving Webster Hubbell.
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Dick Gephardt
Dan Burton
Burton
Clinton
Webster Hubbell
Lewinskys hire former aide to Bush as media specialist
Monica Lewinsky and her family hired a former deputy press secretary to President Bush as a media relations specialist. The move comes as the Iran Contra era investigations and Washington Mayor Marion Barry drug prosecutions recede, with Lewinsky urging the hire alongside her parents.
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Monica Lewinsky
Clinton
Ote Han Vente
Washington
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Lewinsky
Bernard Lewinsky
Marcia Lewis
What to Call NASA Space Station Named
NASA teams wrestle with naming the international space station as 16 countries weigh in. Russians oppose beginnings or firsts, while Europeans and Japanese resist honoring explorers. Managers seek a real name beyond ISS to satisfy astronauts and the public.
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Control Center Revived as Air Force Conference Center
The historic blockhouse at Complex 14 Cape Canaveral Air Station, once a mildew filled storage for furniture, was dedicated Sunday as an Air Force conference center. Several hundred attended the ceremony as two 10 foot thick reinforced walls protected launch controllers while Atlas rockets lifted off a thousand feet away. Periscopes in the concrete offered safe launch views.
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Seagram plans large Polygram buy in Entertainment Push
Seagram Co plans to acquire Polygram for about 9 to 10 billion dollars sources say. The deal would follow its 1995 MCA purchase and involve Philips Electronics NV as Polygram’s owner, with Edgar Bronfman Jr negotiating top management talks.
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Polygram
Wall Street Journal
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