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Along with Saudi Arabia and Mexico, the Beverly Hills Unified School District is facing hard times because of plunging oil prices. Since the 1920s, the school district has bolstered its budget with revenues from oil wells behind Beverly Hills High that overlook the athletic fields. An oil company leases the land from the school district and pays royalties based on the profits it makes from the wells. When petroleum prices shot up in the 1970s, the district's annual oil earnings jumped to $1.5 million. The extra revenue has helped Beverly Hills pay its teachers a handsome...
...while the committee's plan and the faculty's likely endorsement is a cause for celebration, in the midst of it all we should not overlook the serious obstacles that lie ahead for the discipline at Harvard...
Hard-core conservatives misconstrue the mission of Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) as an anti-Communist "war of liberation." Savimbi's supporters completely overlook the fact that the leader of UNITA has never professed an ideological preference for "democracy"; in fact, he has freely publicized his own preference for Stalinist-Maoist forms of totalitarianism. Savimbi is willing to ingratiate himself with whomever is stupid enough to help him install his own regime--and it appears that American interventionists have been duped by his disingenuous propaganda...
...docked $2,000 a month in salary for ten years. His crime: withholding information from an investigating team regarding Billig's competence. Perhaps because the Navy has difficulty attracting experienced surgeons (their average pay is $70,000, vs. nearly $240,000 in private practice), it apparently had decided to overlook Billig's poor record and his poor eyesight...
Blair wasn't mentioned. But it's hard to see how the award committee could overlook his play this year--especially in comparison to Terreri...