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...revenues, which might otherwise languish in non-interest-bearing checking accounts or small savings accounts that today typically earn only 5¼% interest. Since March 1982, a number of districts have been pooling their tax receipts and investing the resulting millions of dollars in the Pennsylvania School District Liquid Asset Fund. The fund buys U.S. and state government securities, Treasury notes and bonds for example, earning interest of about 10%. Result: this year the school fund raised $15.5 million in interest for its member districts. Voters are happy because the earnings keep property tax increases down. Nor are the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Clout, More Cash | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...maudlin bordering on corny, there is no excuse for butchering classic lines like. "Every man over 21 is another woman's cast off clothing." Moreover, if Weishan wanted to give the show the least bit of credibility, he might have atleast seen to it that teacups were filled with liquid and pipes with tobacco...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Friendship Without Feeling | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

Often it was impossible to hear the Secretary speak over the shouting to roughly a third of the audience. Even before he rose to speak, the Law School professor who introduced him was at times drowned out. A balloon full of red liquid was thrown at Weinberger, who fortunately was not struck. Shouts of "murderer" and other insults were hurled at him throughout the hour and a quarter he was on stage. Through it all the Secretary attempted to give a standard speech on the Reagan Administration's approach to nuclear defense: simultaneous negotiations for arms reductions and modernization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Speech for Weinberger, Too | 11/23/1983 | See Source »

...Russian KGB agent, evidence, circumstantial mostly, points to his defection to the Soviet Union, and his easy employment and marriage, and very easy departure back to the U.S., a rarity for defectors. In a trip to Mexico in 1963, Oswald met with a KGB agent working in its "liquid affairs" department, the department utilized for assassination in Soviet intelligence...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California last January, the $250 million observatory, which was built jointly by the U.S. and The Netherlands, has completed four separate surveys of virtually the entire sky. During these sweeps, IRAS'S 22.4-in. mirror and electronic sensors, which are chilled by liquid helium to nearly 4° above absolute zero (-459.7° F) so that their own heat will not impede observations, picked up infrared emissions from more than 200,000 sources. Most of these celestial pinpoints are much too cool to have been recorded by conventional telescopes. Many are extremely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spectacular Shots in the Dark | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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