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Starting with a bankroll of $2,000, Gourley managed to collect 35 handguns, four shotguns and $800 in special donations before running out of money last week. Some of the gun traders could not be paid, but they did not seem to mind. Yet not all of them had the purest motives. One man vowed to use his cash bounty as a down payment on an assault rifle. Another threatened to kill the priest. Still others bought cheap $30 guns and sold them to Gourley for a $70 profit...
...passengers arriving at understaffed counters were unable to get on any flight. Hundreds of vacationers missed connections with Florida cruises because flights south were canceled. Hundreds of thousands of airline customers were left holding some $250 million worth of prepaid Eastern tickets. In order to get refunds, those who paid in cash will have to queue up behind Eastern's secured creditors and wait as long as a year...
Newhouse said people who do not smoke or drink often subsidize those who do. He said "external" costs paid by non-smokers or non-drinkers--including collective insurance, pensions, fires, motor vehicle accidents and financial strains on the criminal justice system--exceed the income brought in by excise taxes...
...ninth consecutive year, University officials have announced a tuition hike that exceeds inflation. Undergraduate fees for tuition, room and board and health charges will rise by 6.5 percent to $19,135. At this rate, a graduate of the Harvard Class of 2000 will have paid well over $100,000 for a college education, which will take up a larger part of a family's real income than it does...
...addition to the $37 million purchase price he paid Murdoch, who reportedly lost $150 million in the twelve years he owned the paper, Kalikow has already sunk $17 million into the Post. The Chicago-based Tribune Co., owner of the Daily News, has spent more than $100 million reviving the paper since it nearly folded in 1982, while the Los Angeles-based Times-Mirror Co. has invested about the same amount in its attempt to create a New York paper by expanding Newsday from its profitable base on Long Island...