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...This is really disappointing," council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 said after the polling motion was defeated. "Students have the right to voice their opinions and to care how a big chunk of their money is being spent. I really hope students will take it upon themselves to express their opinions about this...
...budget. Furthering hamstringing creative budgeting, more than half the federal outlays are tied up in mandatory payments for such emotionally charged programs as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Faced with these choices, the President who campaigned by capitalizing on fears that Republicans would drastically cut entitlements takes his biggest chunk of savings -- $100 billion over five years -- from Medicare...
Even so, much of Miami's fiscal mess is directly traceable to its uniquely fast-and-loose municipal traditions. A Miami Herald investigation found that in the midst of its current fiscal crisis, the city is still leasing out a good chunk of its $600 million in property to politically connected businesses at well below market rents. Among those who benefit: the Municipios Trust Fund Corp., a group of prominent Cubans who got a $1-a-year, 20-year lease on city-owned property to build a clubhouse and community center. "The politicians here just give land away to their...
People once bought stocks primarily because of the notion that the company would return a chunk of its earnings to them in the form of a hefty dividend. How quaint. The average blue-chip company now pays such a stingy dividend that the yield, which is the dividend divided by the stock price, is less than 2%--a payout so low it had been considered imponderable for most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something...
...Nickelodeon is gaining a big chunk. As the networks have watched their ratings dwindle, Nick has seen its Saturday-morning audience grow 23.5% during the past year. "The networks have gone to the same tired well too many times," argues Nickelodeon president Herb Scannell. "They don't care about kids, and kids are feeling that...