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Polvere said denying one of the increases contradicted the rent board's policy of encouraging capital improvement. "To say a capital improvement failed through no fault of anyone and it be disallowed will discourage capital improvement...
...Wharton School of Business, who had been found dead of cyanide poisoning in his apartment last April 3. His death had been ruled a suicide, largely on the strength of a note Pascual had mailed to his mother in Arlington, Va. ("Dear Mom: It wasn't your fault. It was mine, all mine"). At the time, analysis of three Tylenol capsules from a bottle found in a shoe in the closet uncovered no poison, but analysis last week of the remaining capsules, which were still in police storage, did turn up cyanide. For a day or so hope grew...
...Americans, especially those 99 million who are working, are beginning to see some real hope. Inflation has been cut more than in half; interest rates are heading down, and there are other signs that we're heading toward a good recovery." The damaging recession, he said, was the fault of the Democrats, whose policies had created "the worst economic mess since the days of Franklin Roosevelt" by the time his Administration took office. The President smiled wryly when asked if he would accept any blame at all for the recession. Said Reagan: "Yes, because for many years...
William Jackson was released from prison 7½ hours after Edward Jackson was indicted. He holds no grudge against the mistaken witnesses - "It ain't their fault" - but he is bitter at the system of justice that put him behind bars. Ohio law provides no compensation for persons falsely convicted unless it can be shown that due process was not observed. Says William Jackson, who was stabbed and repeatedly assaulted during his imprisonment: "They took away part of my life, part of my youth. I spent five years down there, and all they said...
...when infuriated secondary-school educators blamed the SAT stranglehold on admissions for hindering their students from going on to college, test-makers pointed out that it wasn't their fault but the schools' that students were graduating illiterate and scoring so embarrassingly low. The SAT only highlighted the problem...