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...disorderly way of budgeting it," says Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean of the Faculty for finance and administration, who oversees budget-making every year. There's more guesswork in the preparation of the Faculty budget than you might expect if you judged from the neat tables and rows of figures that emerge at year...
Typical of the many cities or states that face the pension squeeze is Hamtramck, Mich. (pop. 26,000), a working-class town of neat clapboard houses skirting Detroit. Payments for retired Hamtramck public employees could be halted next year. Pension promises in the past were so generous while funding was so skimpy that 99% of the town's property tax income now must be funneled directly into the police and fire pension funds to keep them afloat. One former city employee who contributed only $35 to his retirement plan when he was on the payroll has collected...
...come up with policies to counter the feeling of just being a cog," Cantor says. One of his policies was to give a Harvard chair to employees celebrating their 25th year at Harvard. About 100 people get that chair every year, Cantor says, adding, "It's a neat ceremony...
...would have let the company count its losses as profits--allowing it to deduct the cost of capital improvements from its federal taxes, something only profitable companies are normally allowed to do. If Chrysler failed to turn a profit again, its losses would become the government's losses, a neat trick by anyone's standards. Chrysler's strategy for achieving this goal was a mixture of guilt-tripping and blackmailing the government...
...incongruous sight. Two miles offshore from the hotel-lined beachfront, two giant dredges toil away round the clock, scooping up tons of sand from the ocean bottom. Heavy, 27-in. pipes carry the grayish slurry to the beach. There it is deposited in large, neat mounds, until the fresh sand is spread out by large earth-moving machines. Under way for two years, the controversial $64 million project by the Army Corps of Engineers is aimed at nothing less than saving one of the nation's vacation landmarks: that fabled stretch of the Florida Gold Coast known as Miami...