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Although the school currently has only fiveBlacks and five women among its 66-person tenuredor tenure-track faculty, women and minorities havereceived approximately 45 per cent of suchappointments in the past decade

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Judge Grants Delay in Bok's Testimony | 1/4/1990 | See Source »

...infamous traffickers: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, 39, and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, 42. Late last week police scored their greatest single victory in their four-month-old war on drugs by trapping and killing one of the two: the notoriously brutish billionaire Rodriguez Gacha. And it didn't cost a cent in reward money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs Death of a Drug Prince | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Earlier, the speaker had promised members he would scale a sales tax increase back to one cent, instead of two cents, in another compromise aimed at getting a majority of the 160-member House to pass some from of tax package and send it to the Senate, where support for higher taxes is stronger than in the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State House Nixes Tax Increase | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

Considerable opposition from both parties still exists to the revenue package, which contains a 50 percent increase in the capital gains tax and a 10 cent surcharge on gasoline prices for two years...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: House Speaker to Modify Tax Bill | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

Mackey said that, as of last night the package calls for the sales tax to increasefrom 5 to 7 percent, the capital gains tax to risefrom 5 to 7.5 percent, a "sin" tax on alcohol andtobacco to go up and this year's gasoline tax tosuffer a six-cent increase, followed by a two-centincrease for the next two years...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: House Committee Chair Quits | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

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