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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps by the time Judge completes his next big project, the girls will be old enough to become fans. He is about to begin writing a script for a live-action comedy film he hopes to direct. Its subject? The eerie modern construct that is the suburban office park. Maybe someday Judge could do a catchy musical about aluminum siding...
...construct the CPI the Bureau of Labor Statistics checks the prices of a "market basket" of some 90,000 products and services--everything from a half-gallon carton of milk to the daily rate of a hospital room. They are given weights that are supposed to represent a typical family's buying patterns--so much for food, so much for movie tickets, so much for auto insurance. But the current market basket represents buying patterns in the years 1982-84, not those of today...
...mogul gave $15 million to Harvard University, where he dropped out. This is part of a joint $25 million gift with Microsoft executive vice president Steve Ballmer--a Harvard graduate--to benefit research and teaching in computer science and electrical engineering. Of this, $20 million will be used to construct a research and teaching facility named after the donors' mothers. The remaining $5 million will endow a professorship. Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, also gave $12 million to the University of Washington to help pay for a proposed $52 million law school building that will be named after...
Texaco has drilled several exploration wells in Burma's Gulf of Martaban and is planning a pipeline project to transport natural gas from the gulf across Burma into Thailand. Other oil companies--Unocal and the French company Total--are currently constructing a pipeline in the same area, and although Texaco will probably construct a new pipeline, it will run a similar route and use much of the infrastructure of the Total-Unocal project...
Twenty million dollars of the gift will be used to construct a state-of-the-art research and teaching facility. The remaining $5 million will support research and endow a faculty chair, said Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...