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...glacier-scarred landscape of the Finger Lakes region in northwestern New York is a great place to hike, ski, fish and swim. It's also the source of a number of excellent wines to quench your thirst. The sloping terrain and complex soil are hospitable to more than 80 wineries, many of which have sprung up in the past decade. And the growing wine culture has spawned quite a few decent dining possibilities. You may even find the region reminiscent of the budding Napa Valley of the late 1970s...
...back of the menu blares "'Decent Indian Food' - Beverly Bernstein." After eating there Ms. Bernstein couldn't even afford a colorful adjective. The insane prices bother me, but I'm completely mystified by Londoners' lack of indignation. In New York City, the cab drivers recently won a fare hike, bringing their rates to within 50% of London cabbies'. The scorn heaped on the New York drivers was venomous - and not just because they now charge 25% more to take you in the opposite direction from where you want to go. New Yorkers believe an almost-sort-of-affordable city...
Reagan proved a surprisingly pragmatic and successful Governor. Though all his campaign rhetoric opposed tax increases, he soon found that he needed more revenue to do all he wanted to do, so he imposed the biggest tax hike in state history. Winning a second term by half a million votes, Reagan turned to simplifying and reducing welfare spending and got his way by shrewd bargaining with his Democratic opposition. But his successes came during the years when his party was falling into disgrace nationally because of President Nixon's Watergate scandal. When Reagan retired as Governor in 1975, according...
With “Believe in a Better Harvard,” the slogan used by proponents of the termbill hike, the council scored a minor victory by a 6 percent margin...
...final meeting last month, the Faculty Council unanimously approved a plan proposed by Mahan, which recommended implementing the fee hike over two years, with a $60 fee set for the 2004-2005 academic year and a $75 fee to follow a year later...