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...husband's financial disclosure form to the Senate, Mrs. Dole had voluntarily pledged to contribute her income from giving speeches, minus taxes and other expenses, to a Red Cross program for needy youths. In 1991-94, she received $855,500 for speeches, of which she gave $415,727 to the charity. Mrs. Dole is expected to explain that her tax preparers overestimated her taxes on the speeches, which prompted her, in turn, to pay the Red Cross less than she had promised...
...Jones industrial average closed up 2.17 points, reaching a new high of 5,541.62, a fifth straight record for Wall Street's best-known indicator. The Dow slid to minus 26 on computer driven selling around noon, but maintained its pattern of rallying into the close, which has prevailed all week. Trading volume was heavy at 476.64 million shares. The NYSE composite index rose 0.29 to 349.44, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 0.30 to 656.37, and the Nasdaq composite rose 1.43 to 1,094.60. All three indexes broke Thursday's records. It was the sixth straight record...
...Boston, where television stations have promoted the storm and even recent, lesser bombardments "as if they are events of biblical proportions. One tunes into the eleven o'clock news to find scary, Siberian-like numbers written across a regional weather map. Only later do we find out that the minus forty-one registered in Worcester is, in fact, the wind-chill factor...
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However, neither of these systems can be truly and perfectly proportional until the underlying system of converting numerical grades to letter grades is changed. As it stands, the regular letter grades have four points on the 100-point scale devoted to them while the plus and minus grades only have three. For example, 83-86 is the range for a B, but 87-89 is the smaller range for a B+. Both systems have the added problem that an A+ has no separate grade; thus a 15-point or four-point A stands for the huge range...