Word: cents
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...slick and vastly overrated photographer, conservative in every sense except the sexual, who is now seen as a hybrid of welfare queen and Caligula, living off the NEA on your tax dollar and mine while sticking bullwhips up his bum. In fact, Mapplethorpe neither got nor asked for one cent from the NEA to make the photos that caused the offense; a museum did that, for a show of his work. And he died a multimillionaire because of the ranting queer hatred of Jesse Helms, Pat Buchanan and the religious right--not to mention the tribal loyalty of art-world...
...Citron, who has since pleaded guilty to misappropriation of funds. Yet the bankruptcy need not have been ruinous. Orange County is vastly rich: its gross economic output of $77 billion is about the same as Greece's. According to a study, the proposed sales-tax increase of a half-cent per dollar would have cost the average resident only $50 a year while reaping $140 million in tax revenue, enough to procure a new loan to cover the county's maturing obligations...
Alice Hamilton, who joined the Harvard faculty in 1919 as assistant professor of industrial medicine at the School of Public Health (SPH), will appear on a 55-cent stamp...
Reich pitched several other initiatives, suchas an expansion of child care, a tax deduction ofup to $10,000 for individuals enrolled in jobtraining courses and a 90-cent increase of theminimum wage--which he said is at a 40-year lowwhen adjusted for inflation...
...edge of bankruptcy for the second time in a decade, Kerkorian's Tracinda Corp., named for his daughters Tracy and Linda, started buying Chrysler stock at $12.37 a share. By now he has spent about $676 million accumulating a 10% stake. Noting that he had not lined up a cent in financing for his takeover bid, some Wall Street analysts suspect that his real aim is not to buy the company but to push up the value of his stock. Merely by announcing his intentions, Kerkorian boosted Chrysler's stock price $9.50 a share. That was still $6.25 below...