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Hussian, a former resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was convicted of rape in a highly publicized trial early last June, has been working at Children's Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., for more than a month...
Wanniski became Laffer's most avid apostle and spread the gospel of tax cutting with all the fervor of a circuit-riding preacher. An important early convert was Jack Kemp, a New York Congressman and former quarterback with the Buffalo Bills. In 1977 Kemp, together with Senator William Roth Jr. of Delaware, introduced a bill in Congress to reduce personal income taxes by almost 33% over three years...
...Kruidenier, 60, and his Minneapolis cousin John Cowles Jr., 52. Both companies have suffered financial declines recently. In Minneapolis, operating earnings slid from $6 million in 1979 to $3.7 million a year later, largely because of a 27-day newspaper strike and continuing losses from its latest acquisition, the Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier-Express (circ. 131,990). The smaller Des Moines company saw its earnings drop from $3.6 million in 1979 to $2.6 million in 1980, in part, because of the troubled evening Tribune (circ. 80,114), which has been losing readers steadily for more than a decade. Even more serious...
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Residents of Detroit, Buffalo and other Canadian-U.S. border towns have long driven into Canada to buy gasoline at bargain prices, at times 40% less than at home. Lately they have had another reason for crossing the border: interest rates paid by Canadian banks are much higher than those obtainable in the U S A regular passbook savings account in Canada now earns up to 19% interest, while federal law holds U.S. commercial banks to a miserly 5.25%. An account in Canada is even more attractive to an American with large deposits. Banks there pay 19% interest...