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Cynthia Dorn Navarrete, member of New Arts Six, portrays early
twentieth century opera singer Sissertta Jones in the 2-act bio
graphical opera-drama. News Arts Six was presented by Aggie
Encores in Rudder Theatre.
Business Career Fair 2000
Linking The Present to Your Future
February 8 ,h - 10 th • Wehner
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Tuesday, February 8
Wednesday, February 9
Thursday, February 10
ABB Inc.
AIM Funds
Arthur Anderson LLP
Auto One Acceptance Corporation
Bed Bath & Beyond
Broad Vision Inc.
Career Center
Chase Bank of Texas
Ciber
Cintas Corporation
Container Store, The
Crane's Stationers
Enron
Entercon International
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery
Ernst & Young L.L.P.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve Bank - Houston
Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.
Frito-Lay, Inc.
General Mills
Glazer's Distributors
Guaranty Bank
Halliburton
Harley Davidson
Hastings Entertainment Inc.
HEB Grocery Company
Hewitt Associates
Home Depot
IKON Office Solutions
IMG Financial Group
j.D. Edwards
JCPenney Co.
KPMG L.L.P.
Kurt Salmon Associates
McLane Company, Inc.
Mervyns California
Mission Critical Software
National Instruments
Neiman Marcus
Northwestern Mutual Life
Norwest Financial
Office Depot
OLDE Discount Corporation
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.
Randalls/Tom Thumb
Royce Homes
Ryan & Company
Sam's Club
Sears Roebuck and Co.
TEK Systems
United States Gypsum Co. (USG)
US A A
VarTec Telecom, Inc.
Walgreen Co.
Wallace Computer Services
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Alcatel
Allstate Insurance Company
Alside Inc.
American Express Financial Advisors
American National Insurance Co.
Baker & Botts, L.L.P.
Bank One
Blockbuster Inc.
Career Center
CarMax
Cintas Corporation
CMS Energy Panhandle Pipe Line Co.
Deloitte & Touche
DHL Worldwide Express
Entercon International
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Expo Group
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Fidelity Financial Services
Fidelity Investments
Foley's
Grant Thornton L.L.P.
Guaranty Bank
Halliburton
Harold's Stores, Inc.
Hastings Entertainment Inc.
Home Depot
Houston Chronicle
JCPenney Co.
Kroger Co.
Luby's
Maxim Healthcare Services
National Instruments
Northwestern Mutual Life
Office Depot
OLDE Discount Corporation
Onsite Companies
Randalls/Tom Thumb
Sears Roebuck and Co.
Sewell Automotive Co.
Sherwin-Williams
Southwest Bank of Texas
Stage Stores, Inc.
Standard Register
TeleCheck Services Inc.
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Toys R Us / Babies R Us / Kids R Us
TXU
United States Gypsum Co. (USG)
Universal Computer Systems, Inc. (UCS)
USAA
VHA Inc.
Walgreen Co.
Automated Data Processing (ADP)
Career Center
Dell Computer Corporation
Duke Energy
Dynegy
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Engage Energy US, L.P.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Foley's
Lowe's Home Centers) Inc.
Maxim Group
Onsite Companies
Payless Shoesource
SBC Communications Inc./Southwestern Bell
Sewell Automotive Co.
State Farm Insurance
Target
TXU
Universal Computer Systems, Inc. (UCS)
UUNET
VHA Inc.
Zale Corporation
Alaska Air cockpit
recorder reviewed
PORT HUENEME,
Calif. (AP) — The cock
pit voice recorder recov
ered from the Pacific de
tails the Alaska Airlines
crew desperately trying to
regain control as the jet
liner carry ing 88 people
Hew upside down before
crashing, federal investi
gators said Thursday.
The recorder captured
slightly more than 30
minutes of conversation,
National Transportation
Safety Board Chairman
James Hall told reporters
in Washington.
“The crew made ref
erences to being inverted
that are consistent with
the witness statements to
that effect,” Hall said.
The tape starts with
the crew discussing a
problem with a part of the
tail control, called the hor
izontal stabilizer, which
keeps the plane level.
“The crew had diffi
culty controlling the air
plane's tendency to pitch
nose down. The airplane
descended, but the crew
was able to arrest the de
scent. The crew contin
ued troubleshooting and
preparing the airplane for
landing. Then control
was suddenly lost.”
Hall’s account came
from an initial review of
the cockpit voice recorder,
which was recovered
Wednesday from the de
bris of the MD-83.
Searchers Thursday
continued searching the
ocean floor for the Right
data recorder, the com
panion “black box” that
could provide details on
the plane's mechanical
operation.
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begun analyzing a recul
ing of a radio call fl
Flight 261’s pilots il
Seattle maintenancec«
about the stabilizerp:!
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crash.
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or smoke when thejal
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the water in one ptl
Monday, killiugevern
on board.
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off the coast, a vor®
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Wednesday
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reporters late W
Poor students perform
better in small schools
AUSTIN — Texas' smaller
schools reduce the harmful effects of
poverty on student achievement and
help narrow the achievement gap be
tween poor students and those from
wealthier communities, officials from
a national group studying rural
schools said Thursday.
The Rural School and Community
Trust examined every public school in
Texas, Ohio, Montana and Georgia to
determine what effects poverty has on
student achievement and how those ef
fects changed depending on the
schools’ size. Only schools that did not
have appropri-
schools in 960suburban, urbananda|
al districts. Researchers from Ohio®
Marshall universities used Texas 1 ®
sessment of Academic Success®
scores in third, fifth, eighth and tec
grades to reach their conclusions. K
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higher achievement in poorer cor f:
nitics than larger schools, they saic 1
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tween 26 percent and 57 percen: f
Texas schools likely would proditl
lower average student scores if kI
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ative effect on
student achieve
ment, and the
data in the study
suggests that the
bigger the
School, the
worse students
do.
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look at all the
four states, our
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creases.
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policy director for the Rural School
and Community Trust
conclusions are that as schools be
come larger the negative effect of
poverty on student achievement in
creases,” said Marty Strange, policy
director for the organization.
“The less affluent the community
served, the smaller a school ought to be
to get the best performance out of its
student body,” Strange said.
The Texas study examined 6,288
to achieve top student performance."!]
report said.
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for smaller schools in both urban a.j
rural communities,” Strange said. |
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Microsoft gives tax film
assistance to Texas towr
COMFORT (AP) — Software giant
Microsoft Corp. is setting out to show the
tranquil town of Comfort the ease of
preparing and filing income tax returns
by computer.
With a high school band playing and
former Gov. Ann Richards lending her
support, Microsoft “adopted” the town
of approximately 1,900 tax filers
Thursday.
The company was publicizing its Mi
crosoft TaxSaver tax preparation soft
ware, new to the marketplace this tax
season. It’s also playing off the name of
the Hill Country town, suggesting that
the new software will provide comfort
for taxpayers.
Microsoft hopes to get all tax filers in
Comfort to use its software and at least
25 percent to file electronically. Last
year, only about 15 percent of Comfort
residents filed taxes electronically, and
even fewer were believed to have used
personal software.
. The company is opening two free tax
preparation and filing centers — one at
the community center on the town’s main
street and one at the high school — and
is offering use of and assistance with
TaxSaver, said company spokeswoman
Gayle Cruise.
Free help will be provided through
out the spring by members of the Texas
chapter of the National Association of
Tax Practitioners.
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were so enthusiastic and so welcoffl
of this program that this was thep#
place,” Cruise said. “What we re*
want to do is to showcase the benefti
electronic liling and the benefitsoff
software.”
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Microsoft wouldn’t release its!!
mate of TaxSaver sales this seasoti
said it hopes to tap into the growinsf
preparation software market, which
eludes offerings such as Intuit Inc.'s
botax and Macintax, and Block Fin;
Corp.’s Kiplinger Tax Cut.
The population of Comfort, loc|
about 45 miles northwest of San/
nio, isn’t exactly known because if]
unincorporated community. Asm
8,000 are estimated to live in theto'|
vicinity.