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Then things began to improve under yet another superintendent, the outspoken Robert Spillane, 50. From 1981 to 1985, Spillane reduced incidents of school violence by 70%, eliminated a $31 million budget deficit and raised the majority of student-achievement scores to equal or exceed the national medians in math and English. Garrity, too, seemed to be winning some converts to his tough policies. "He's the bravest guy in Boston in the past 15 years," says Jerome Winegar, headmaster of now thoroughly integrated South Boston High School...
...seen a substantial increase in petitions over the appropriation of farmland and homes by local officials and property developers for new public and private projects. Meanwhile, according to a report released last year by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, urban incomes have grown so rapidly that they now exceed rural incomes by more than 300% on average. "China is in the robber-baron stage of its economic development," says Nick Young, editor of the Beijing-based China Development Brief, a quarterly journal on civil society. "People are dispossessed, and that causes social strains...
Stanford University, which raised $524.2 million, was the only other school to exceed $500 million in contributions...
...same number of shots—not even shots per-game, but shots—his goals-against average would not be 1.29, but 1.58, 0.03 higher than Grumet-Morris’. Facing the same volume of shots on goal per night, McKee’s GAA would exceed...
...world to finance its profligacy? What is the likelihood that President George W. Bush--or the financial markets--will take corrective action? And could America's twin deficits ultimately destabilize not just the U.S. but the entire global economy? The U.S.'s soaring budget deficit is expected to exceed $400 billion this year (not including the forecast $100 billion--plus costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan), and its record $617.7 billion trade deficit means that U.S. imports of goods, services and money exceed exports in an amount equal to about 6% of the total U.S. economy...