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...state. First is its geography. As Burgin notes, Florida is "long and skinny, and nobody is very far away from somebody else." Almost every publisher faces a rival whose territory stretches to within a town or two of his own. Second, many of the new arrivals are affluent and thus are enticing to advertisers; many others are elderly and loyal, lifelong readers of newspapers. Third is the tourist trade, which in smaller markets can augment circulation by as much as 30%. Fourth is a tradition of operating papers as public institutions, not just money-making machines, set by the late...
Anxiety about Harvard's financial and policy probably sparked the decline in "non affluent" applicants, Fitzsimmons said. But he noted that minority applicants, because of fairly heavy recruiting before and during the application process, may have had a greater opportunity than non-minorities to learn that Harvard will continue guaranteeing full financial aid to all accepted applicants...
...STATISTICS released last week on applicants to the Class of 1986 are more upsetting than startling. Admissions Office figures showed that the number of applicants whose parents didn't attend college dropped by 570 students from last year,--showing that the percentage of "non-affluent" applicants may have fallen off sharply. Those trends suggest ominously that the economic and racial diversity Harvard so rightly prized could prove more elusive than ever in years to come...
...minute has not yet passed as the fireball dims. A few miles farther out, north into working-class neighborhoods and east toward affluent Grosse Pointe, tens of thousands are dying. Survivors crawl from wrecked homes to see a more ordinary terror beginning. The only illumination is from house fires; the power is out. Ruptured gas lines explode, setting new blazes, and the flames spread unchecked. Rising overhead now is the catastrophe's explanation: a dark mushroom cloud, already eight miles high...
...solution to the problem of this tax loophole and resulting loss in revenue from the billions of dollars a year deducted as "necessary and proper business expenses" for food and entertainment that goes to someone (usually other affluent business persons) tax free, would be to require each recipient of the free and part federally funded lunch to report it on his or her income tax form. This arguably, should be done now under existing law and judicial definitions of income under the Internal Revenue Code...