Economy Beginning to Shine in a 'Reviving' West Virginia

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By William K. Stevens CHARLESTON, W.Va. - In decades past, West Virginians pointed to the gilded dome of their State Capitol as a symbol of the cons iderable pride they have always taken in their state.

But as the coal economy crumbled over the years and the state's pride with it, the gold leaf peeled off the dome. Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. has long wanted to regild it but has resisted because of howthat might look in a state whose unemployment rate led the nation.

Now, at last, Moore has ordered new gold leaf. He decided to ""go for the gold'' because West Virginia's unemployment rate, for the first time since 1982, is not the country's highest and is …