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...Clinton's plan would over four years produce reductions of about $4 billion in the growth of such entitlement programs as Social Security and Medicare, the committee sees this as a very small drop in a very large bucket. By 1996, notes the group, "entitlement spending is projected to exceed $900 billion...
Noise from public performances must not exceed 80 decibels when measured from a distance of 25 feet and must be inaudible from a distance of 150 feet, the order says. In addition, the city will have the authority to shut down performances whose noise levels exceed 50 decibels when measured in private residences...
...grim enough, a new Harvard School of Public Health study finds that HIV threatens to infect as many as 120 million people by the end of the century. This doubles previous predictions and estimates that the number of people who develop AIDS over the next three years will exceed the total afflicted with it in the epidemic's 11-year history to date...
...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...