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...Edison Project, envisions a nationwide chain of at least 100 for-profit grammar schools by 1996, serving 150,000 students. By the end of this decade, additional campuses would open, providing day care and primary and secondary education for 2 million students. Tuition for individual students would not exceed the $5,500 current average spent on each child now in public education...
According to McCue, the Design School's deficit will exceed $200,000 this year. The deficit is considered small--the school's budget hovers around $13 million--but Rowe says the deficit could hurt the school if it persists...
Seafood will not be limitless either. Some scientists estimate that rising demand will exceed what the oceans can produce by 20% in as little as 20 years. One sign of how badly the seas have been overfished is that populations of bluefin tuna have declined 94% since...
Ford did its share to reduce smog in the Golden State as it unveiled two models that will exceed the first stage of the state's stringent new clean-air code. By improving the catalytic converters in their subcompacts, Ford beat the clock on the tougher standards by four years. Research also continues on vehicles fueled by natural gas and flexible mixtures of up to 85% methanol and gasoline. As a result, car buyers are soon going to face choices much more complicated than merely deciding whether to buy their favorite sedan in green...
...There are cities in the U.S. -- including a couple in Connecticut -- that have infant-mortality rates that exceed those of Third World countries. Our state has as good a record of compassion as any as to how it regards the frail elements of society. And yet the Connecticut department of children and youth services -- that's our children -- is under a court order to improve the quality of care for foster children. The department of correction is also under court order on prison overcrowding. . . I can go down the list. We used to exceed what the Federal Government...