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Dropout rates have improved as well, from 9 per cent of the student population in 1980 to about 5 per cent last year, Giroux said...
Some observers argue that political and economic changes have been taking place so rapidly that the plan is no longer a relevant model to follow. "All the conditions that the plan was supposed to achieve, we've achieved without giving a cent," says Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow in Soviet Studies at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...date, requires 2,200 insurers to provide the funds needed to restore the full value of policies and annuities held by customers of Executive Life, up to $100,000. About 95% of Executive's policyholders fall into that category. Those with policies valued above $100,000 will receive 81 cents on the dollar. In separate talks, California regulators are trying to persuade a French consortium interested in buying parts of Executive Life to come up with the remaining 19 cents. If the French agree, customers of the failed insurer would not lose a cent...
...beat 69-cent tacos, 50-cent frozen yogurt and Diet Coke? We lived off it," Wilson says. "That way we could buy more beer or more expensive beer...
...tickets -- about double the tally of the former champion, The Phantom of the Opera. It seems set to pay off its production cost of $10 million, also a record, by the turn of the year. In an era when many musicals run a year or two without repaying a cent of their investment, Mackintosh aims to show a profit after 36 weeks, a timetable he accomplished with Miss Saigon in London. Such claims of financial wizardry might be suspect from almost anyone else but this disarmingly frank and casual ex-stagehand. A keen intellect with a common touch, he presented...