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...securities is exempt from state and local taxes. While rates have dipped below the peaks they reached in March, new three-month T-bill issues offered an attractive return of more than 8.5% last week. Investors daunted by the $10,000 minimum-purchase requirement for T-bills can buy longer-term Treasury notes and bonds in face amounts of $1,000 and $5,000. Such securities mature in two to 30 years and can pay more than 9% interest, which often exceeds the rates paid by bank certificates of deposit...
...secret. Even so, there was horror at the viciousness and randomness of his crime as it was recounted by the victim, Pamela Small, the prosecutor and the surgeons who pieced her back together. Mack was managing an import store when Small stopped in near closing time to buy window blinds for her first apartment. Mack led her to a storeroom, where he grabbed a hammer and without provocation smashed it into her skull five times. Picking up a steak knife, he stabbed her shoulder and chest near her heart and slit her throat. He dumped Small...
...recommendation, and his own general opposition to farm-trade supports, to approve a federally subsidized sale of $250 million worth of American wheat to the Soviet Union. But according to farm-state Congressmen, he made the $12 million subsidy available on only half the wheat the Soviets wanted to buy. The White House denies that, but such a move would be a typical Bush half-a- loaf compromise between the views of the Agriculture Department, which wants to assist U.S. farmers in competing against European export subsidies, and the NSC, which contends that the U.S. should not help Gorbachev solve...
Anyone wishing to buy a ZR1 anytime soon may be out of luck. Chevy plans to build only 4,000 in the 1990 model-year, and most of those have been reserved. "If you don't have an order in by now," says dealer Matthew Williams of Jack Cauley Chevrolet in West Bloomfield, Mich., "you probably won't be able...
...evidence that youthful offenders are becoming more violent is everywhere. Two Denver students have been charged with stabbing a man to death so they could steal his credit cards and use them to buy camping equipment. At a Los Angeles Greyhound station, a 15-year-old girl was kidnaped at knifepoint by two men, held captive for five days and repeatedly raped. She managed to escape and flagged down a passing car. "Get me out of here!" she begged the three teenagers inside. They did, and took her to a park in East Los Angeles, where the eldest...