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...began a search for a new police chief, Wambaugh's name turned up on the list of eleven candidates put together by the mayor's office. According to an aide of Mayor Kathy Whitmire, not everyone on the list is a serious contender for the $81,000-a-year job, but no one will be immediately ruled out. Wambaugh's reaction: "I've learned that in Houston one either gets murdered or gets rich. I've been so bored lately that I'm ready for either. Therefore, I enthusiastically accept. Have gun, will travel...
Skutnik, 28, a $14,000-a-year clerk at the Congressional Budget Office, dived into the icy river to rescue a survivor of the Air Florida crash. Overnight he became a national celebrity, besieged by thousands of letters from admirers, scores of interview requests and more than a dozen invitations from organizations wanting to honor him. To the President, he was a symbol of American heroism...
ITHACA, New York--An assistant professor at the University of Florida (UF) was recently charged with grand theft for allegedly using a fraudulent Cornell University transcript to obtain the $33,000-a-year position. The Cornell Daily Sun reported last week...
Shoup said continuing inflation and the state of the economy played an important role in the tuition hike, but he added that recent construction costs also contributed heavily G.W. must repay a $30 million loan to the District of Columbia for a new building, and G.W. faces $900,000-a-year maintenance expenses when the building opens in July...
...judgment was premature. In the twilight of her career, McClintock is suddenly being hailed as a scientific prophet. This year she has received eight awards, the richest and most prestigious just last week: a $60,000-a-year, taxfree, lifetime grant from Chicago's MacArthur Foundation and the Lasker prize for basic research, worth $15,000 and often a steppingstone to a Nobel Prize...