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That kind of ID is easily forged by out-of-state buyers. "People come into a gun shop with a Virginia driver's license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more...
...awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Challenge program in the fall of 1985. The grant requires a three-to-one match, i.e. ART is responsible for raising $2.25 million in cash (not pledges) from non-federal sources in order to receive a grant of $750,000 from the NEA. While the maximum award under the challenge program is currently $1 million, which would require the recipient organization to raise $3 million in matching funds for a total principal of $4 million, the maximum award is set by the NEA, based on its evaluation...
...muggers took the student's wallet, removed the cash inside--$15 U.S. and $23 Canadian--and tossed the wallet back at him, according to the student and the Harvard University Police report on the incident...
...perjury, heads the city's Commission on Ethics and Values, which last week launched a campaign aimed at inspiring honesty in local citizens. The group was created last year, after the door of an armored car popped open, spilling about $1 million onto a highway; most of the cash was never returned. Funded by private donations, the "Take an Honest Look" campaign will feature forums, TV spots and award plaques to "role models" like the two hotel maids who found a shoe box containing $65,000 in a room and turned it in. Says Magruder: "It could have been different...
...last year, has also dealt a blow to some major schools of thought. Monetarists like Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...