Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dirty little secret in the incentives game is that the real criteria for site selection are skill and cost of labor, proximity to customers and price of real estate. Tax breaks are rarely the dealmaker. Barry Rubin, a professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, notes that of a firm's variable costs--charges that come on top of fixed expenses like lease payments--state and local taxes make up at most 3%. Giveaways are likely to have little impact unless other factors are virtually equal...
...Clintons have taken indiscreet actions in the past, but the issue is how they are performing their duties as First Family." JOHN S. GRIFFIN Indianapolis, Indiana...
...through Maryland, Mississippi, Kansas and Louisiana, he carries everywhere a camouflage-covered Bible. Also in his pocket: a worn copy of the Combat Leader's Field Guide with chapters such as "Ambushes" and "Prisoners of War." Inside the flaps are phone numbers of anticasino agitators in Waterloo, Iowa; Merrillville, Indiana; Pomona, California; Delavan, Wisconsin and beyond. "We're fighting a battle for the soul of America," he says. "Aren't we having...
...voted against playing host to the boat, but the referendum was nonbinding, and local officials, thirsting for revenue, invited it to dock anyway. "I got mad," recalls Grey. Now, with this nationwide campaign, he adds, "I'm getting even." This hometown fight led to invitations to speak in Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and other states grappling with a riverboat onslaught. Grey's message: Despite the $1.4 billion in annual tax revenues it pays states and localities nationwide, casino gambling is bad economics, draining dollars from restaurants and shops, spurring crimes such as burglary and embezzlement, preying on the poor who wager...
...chance to refute critics who say he is an underachieving coach who despite a wealth of talent has never won anything important. The Syracuse coach last went to the championship game in 1987 with a hugely talented team lead by future NBA star Derrick Coleman, only to lose to Indiana on a last second shot by Keith Smart. On the other side is another man who has never won a national championship, but earned a reputation as an excellent coach after taking a lightly regarded Providence team to the Final Four. Yet Pitino too has his detractors...