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...sizable outlay was probably Murphy's guaranteed piece of the box-office take, which was calculated as a percentage of the gross and may have exceeded $15 million. Hollywood's megastars demand a slice of the gross because they know that most films will never pay any earnings to holders of net-profit percentages, which Murphy has derided as "monkey points." Before Buchwald's case is over, Hollywood neophytes may get a first-class education in how the power players operate...
House leaders wanted to charge the $50 billion first-year cost of the program to the federal budget. President Bush had threatened to veto the legislation unless Congress agreed to keep most of the outlay off budget, a plan that Nebraska Senator James Exon called a "continuing grand scheme to fool the American taxpayer ((about)) the real cost of the bailout." Near midnight on Friday, Congress approved a compromise worked out with the White House in which only $20 billion of the program's costs will be charged to the budget. The Government will issue special 30-year bonds...
Televised courses can be a bargain for financially strapped schools. A district may pay as much as $8,000 for a satellite dish, cordless phones and the electronic keypads or computer terminals needed for students to communicate with their long-distance teachers. That one-time outlay amounts to far less than a conventional teacher's annual salary. Like network anchors, video teachers submit to screen tests and often conduct their classes without a studio audience...
...With the proposed outlay, tuition retention, and some new fees here and there, the system will be okay," Albano said. He said he predicts that the Dukakis proposal will allow colleges and universities to stop turning away qualified students...
...higher education outlay currently under debate is part of Dukakis' record $13.4 billion budget proposal for fiscal 1990, a $1 billion increase over last year's budget. While many legislators say the governor's plan will not make it through the legislature, they add that education funds could survive...