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...unofficial name for the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles is the Capitalist Olympics-so called because every cent of the $475 million budgeted to stage them has come from private sources, primarily U.S. corporations. But as every capitalist knows, the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith's marketplace economy not only provides bounteous rewards, it is also perfectly capable of delivering a sucker punch. It was far too early to tell whether the Soviets, in leading an East-bloc boycott of the Olympics, had landed a solid shot or a glancing blow on the 30 corporate sponsors, 54 Olympic...
That's 50 cent an hour more than student computer programmers usually make. It's a dollar more than the dorm crew supervisors make. It's two dollars more than other student office workers get. And it comes directly out of the students' pockets--Melendez's salary is financed by the $10 Undergraduate Council fees tacked on to student term bills...
...HARVARD undergraduate, Brian R. Melendez '86 took 66 cent from this year. He says he's considering doing it again next year, and you can't really blame him. You see, Melendez, has perhaps the best student job on campus. As Executive Secretary of the Undergraduate Council he earns $3808 a year: 17 hours a week; seven dollars an hour...
According to the city manager's report, budget figures for fiscal year 1985 exceed last year's revised estimates by almost $9 million. The increased expenditures will probably require a "slight increase" in taxes next year, including a nine cent hike in water bills, the report said...
...billion debt. The country has refused to accept an IMF austerity program to get new loans, and the Venezuelans are relying on oil revenues to pay for vital imports. Jaime Lusinchi, who became Venezuela's President in February, vowed that his government "will pay back every cent it owes," but said that he would not submit to repayment terms that "impede the progress of the country...