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...face, Harvard's position against the pay raise holds water. The administration claims budget constraints and says it's having to cut back already. Indeed, the union payroll is the largest single item in each of the faculties' budgets. Overall, the 3600 union members receive $80 million annually...
Emphasized are domestic issues including the 1992 GOP goals: reform of Congress, a balanced budget amendment, a line-item veto. It focuses on the free market as the solution to social problems...
...famous rationing system. At the heart of the system is a list of 709 medical conditions ranked in order of seriousness and responsiveness to treatment, from bacterial pneumonia (1) to anencephaly (709). The legislature determined how much the state could afford and then drew a line at item 587 (inflammation of the esophagus). Conditions above the line would be covered for everybody; those below would get no coverage...
...Group met to draw up priority lists. The Library of Congress's "Top Treasures Inventory" includes a Gutenberg Bible, the Gettysburg Address and various papers of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. For the National Archives, which is seven blocks from the White House, the single most precious item would be the Declaration of Independence, followed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Though the National / Archives building has a 55-ton steel-and-concrete vault on the premises, the scenario calls for the evacuation of these and other documents, probably by helicopter, to an underground facility...
Some of the works in the show, such as the harem carriage -- a gilt coach designed with lattice windows so that women could look out discreetly -- have never traveled outside Turkey. The exhibition's most stunning item is the Topkapi Dagger, featured in the 1964 movie Topkapi. Created in the 1740s as a gift for the Shah of Persia, who was assassinated before he could take possession, it is a sword-length blade that is more a showpiece than a weapon. Who would want to bloody a knife with a hilt containing three walnut-size emeralds and a diamond-covered...