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Cash-strapped Donald Trump surprised all the experts last December when he came up with an $18.4 million bond payment on his Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City. At the time, Trump explained that the casino got an infusion of a "relatively small amount of money." Relative is right. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump's 85-year-old father Fred, a megarich developer based in Brooklyn, dispatched a lawyer in December to buy $3 million worth of chips at Trump Castle, in effect giving Donald a loan. Last week the younger Trump would acknowledge only that...
Since Harvard is a non-profit institution, it is largely exempt from Boston city taxes. But Harvard has traditionally offset the loss of city revenues with a voluntary contribution, including a payment of more than $1 million in the past year...
...million voluntary contribution the University currently makes to the city includes payments to compensate for lost revenues from the Soldiers Field Park residential complex and the Business School's Shad Hall fitness center, McCluskey said. The University recently worked out an agreement to pay the city of Cambridge an additional annual $100,000 payment over the next 10 years to compensate it for land recently removed from the tax rolls. That increase brings Harvard's annual voluntary contribution to Cambridge to more than $1 million...
...pressure is building on Bush to speak more sharply in hopes of making Gorbachev reconsider. For conservatives, recent events only confirm their long-standing doubts about lending support to a leader they consider an attractively tailored Lenin. Says an analyst in Washington: "In effect, we need to stop payment on his Nobel Peace Prize...
Spokesmen for the two contractors insisted that they had not defaulted on the contract and said they would seek payment of all their claims against the government. They attributed the problems to a recent Pentagon practice that they consider unrealistic: insisting that a fixed price be determined in advance for projects that are, as a General Dynamics spokesman said, "on the cutting edge of technology...