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...union accepts the changes in their negotiations next spring, Rathburn estimates the additional annual drain on her pocketbook from the increased co-payments would...
Take the metal bar found in the main drain of Grays Hall while the dorm was being renovated this summer...
...about one and one-half inches thick, and at most one and one-half feet long, according to Edith Groden, who was in charge of the Grays renovation. In fact, the bar, buried away in a basement drain, had escaped notice since at least 1960 and possibly since...
...only it had been noticed before. That relatively small bar, Groden says, has been responsible for the periodic sewer drain backups Grays has suffered for the past several years. "We would clean out the [debris], but we didn't know what was causing the backups," she says...
...federal authorities who are supposed to police the borders and the states who pay the price if they fail. Hoping for some ammunition, the Clinton Administration helped fund a study by the Urban Institute that for the first time assesses the costs of immigration. The study found that illegals drain about $2 billion a year for incarceration, schooling and Medicaid from the budgets of such major destination states as Texas, Florida and California. But the survey also discerned that for the country as a whole, legal and illegal immigrants generate a $25 billion to $30 billion surplus from the income...