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Richard Tye, a farmer from Kress, Texas, bought Danny's one-year-old John Deere tractor, but the bargain brought him little joy. "It scares me to death buying this," he said. "I have just enough money to try farming one more year, but probably not enough to get through it. No one can come out ahead farming around here unless something changes...
When Slive formally began his nationwide fund drive, he had already raised about $3.2 million from several longtime supporters of the Fogg. Then came a string of financial coups for Slive. The Kresge Foundation donated $500,000, the Kress Foundation contributed $250,000, and the Lehman Foundation Pledged...
...island, with its Spanish and Bahamian roots, bought up and restored many of the Conch-style cottages and rambling homes in the Old Town section. Prices there tripled in three years. The shops along drowsy and all-but-derelict Duval Street were renovated and transformed; the old Kress dime store became Fast Buck Freddie's, a trendy shoppe. Five hundred new hotel and motel units were built, with 450 more plus a convention center on the drawing board...
Though the details of the program have yet to be spelled out, students' additional courses will focus on either biomedical research or on studies in public health, Kress said...
...students will not actually have to spend an extra year in school if they decide to go on to specialty training, since the extra study would be counted toward a post-doctoral degree, Kress added...