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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul Lobosco, 29, a business student at New York City's Fordham University, wagered $1 million on stocks last week. But at worst he stands to lose only $49.95. That is the fee that 13,000 students paid to enter AT&T's first Collegiate Investment Challenge, a four-month contest designed to give an almost-real adventure in handling a stock portfolio...
...claim that certain towns cannot afford to pay a state-levied wage rate, but in doing so they distort the actual purpose of the law. The law does not establish a single rate for construction projects but prohibits the state or local government from paying less than is normally paid workers for jobs in that particular area, simply insuring that construction workers get paid a fair rate for their work...
...Post said the rally "didn't interfere with our evening," partly because most of the protesters had left by the time the function started. Club members paid little attention to the demonstrators, ignoring their taunts and chants. And one passerby who said he is being punched by another club called the event "absurd...
...never was a millionaire. I was rich. In Kuwait I started three construction companies with partners. They were successful. When I left for Fatah and the P.L.O., my partners paid me for my shares and I left money behind, invested in companies that have become very successful. Let us say I have enough. Until now I have not taken any money from the P.L.O. or the Fatah organization. I still spend my own money...
With the American sweet tooth ever aching for fulfillment, it is no wonder that the role of the pastry chef has become more glamorous and more highly paid in recent years. At the Culinary Arts Division of Johnson & Wales University in Providence, a two-year pastry program that began with 13 students in 1983 now has 208 who are learning to perfect such all-American favorites as cheesecake (the choice of one out of four restaurant dessert eaters), apple pie, fruit tarts and chocolate everything. "Making pastry requires creativity," says Arlene Chorney, an administrator at the school. "It's edible...