Bomb American.
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Tue Aug 27 15:19:02 PDT 2002
"A drive from the district to Washington Dulles International Airport in
Virginia will reveal a region that is light-years away from what it was 30
years ago. When Dulles opened in 1962, it was seen by many as nothing more
than a white elephant-too far from Washington (26 miles) and too big to be
of any real use. Dulles may still be a less con-venient alternative to the
charming and ever-so-close Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, but
it is one of the fastest-growing airports in the country. It has become so
crowded, in fact, that the passengers rushing through Eero Saarinen's
soaring terminal overwhelm the once funky but now pokey mobile lounges. The
once empty Dulles Toll Road, which stretches from the airport to the
gargantuan Tysons Corner office and shopping complex on the Beltway, has
seen changes galore as well. Lined with tech companies of all sorts, the
toll road now serves as Fairfax County's high-tech main street. AOL (now
AOL Time Warner), which grew up here, now occupies a large and sprawling
headquarters in neighboring Loudoun County, Va., on the west side of
Dulles. Other companies with their headquarters here include Nextel
Communications, Deltek Systems, KPMG Consulting, MicroStrategy, TruSecure,
Software AG, and Convera. Oracle, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Computer
Associates International, and VeriSign have offices in Fairfax County. The
city of McLean, Va.-now the residence of choice for republican bigwigs, as
opposed to the democratic Bethesda, Md.-houses the massive and showy new
headquarters for Gannett as well as a large broadband solution center run
by KPMG Consulting."
From a 4 page article on DC at...
http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3d53ff231
Did you know the Govt employee's ratio has halved to 20%? Call off the Nuke's!
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