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Against Colgate, Harvard has the benefit of familiarity. The Crimson has already defeated the Red Raiders (7-8-1) this season in a dominating 7-1 win which saw an excess of ugly penalties by game’s end. Colgate enters the tournament coming off a disappointing 2-1 loss to Clarkson in Ottawa...
...from Interstate Gaming Services Inc., a company that Palmer and his associate happened to own. The fee: 30% of the gross take from each machine. Since slots account for most of the gaming revenue in Indian casinos, Buffalo Brothers was poised to take 70% of the profits--far in excess of the 40% maximum permitted by law. In one year alone, 1992, the two companies collected $14 million...
Unfortunately, it is doubtful that governments could accurately measure the magnitude of the tax necessary for smokers to exactly internalize the excess social cost of their habit. The debate within the economics profession on smoking’s health externality is far from settled. Besides, even if governments could accurately calculate the cost of the externality, they would almost certainly decide to increase the magnitude of the tax hike to deter smoking through punishing smokers rather than relating the tax’s magnitude to the externality cost. New York City’s decision to raise taxes by almost...
Anyone who has ever walked past a McDonald's and smelled that delectable grease should know it's a house of gastronomic excess. No food establishment that leaves your fingers glistening and your clothes smelling like sizzled meat can be good for you. So it's tempting to scoff at the lawsuit heard in a Manhattan court last week on behalf of overweight New Yorkers who say McDonald's food made them fat. And scoff folks did--on chat shows, in the papers, even overseas. "Perhaps they should also take out a lawsuit against staff for saying 'Have a nice...
...Person-hours have been freed up by the closing of so many Widener entrances,” explains Joe Rindfleisch, Access Services Assistant and Evening Supervisor at Lamont Library. Though Lamont has always had two guards during parts of the evening shifts, the temporary excess in personnel allowed the library to solicit extra help securing the entrance from hooligans without the proper...