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...Amex Life Assurance Co. decided to award the money despite the Navy's conclusion that Hartwig may have engineered the blast to commit suicide. But the company disputes the claim by Truitt's lawyer that the payoff disproves the Navy's findings. Said a spokesman: "Amex is not saying that ((Hartwig)) did or did not commit suicide. What Amex is saying is that there is not enough evidence to deny a claim based on suicide...
...wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries, are likely to be more an annoyance than a danger to farmers. In northern Minnesota, where some 1,200 wolves forage in a cattle-ranch and sheep-farm area, the highest annual payoff by a Government program set up to compensate stockmen for wolf kills has been a modest $21,000. (Problem wolves there are killed by federal hunters, as would be true around Yellowstone.) There have been no documented cases in modern times of wolves attacking people in the U.S. But it is taken...
...Harvard can serve itself and our society by transcending the notoriously short American time horizon and continuing to invest in minority and women graduate students. The payoff will take a while. In Putnam's words, "It takes time for people to become major scholars whether they are male, female, black, white or pink." But is that an excuse not to push ahead...
There were other reasons too. Bush undoubtedly swung some votes by last- minute lobbying. Many Congressmen bought the Administration argument that a tax cut would spur business investment, creating more jobs and prosperity for everybody. In theory the lure of a lightly taxed payoff will tempt investors to put up money for risky ventures. Economists have long disputed whether that is true, but it remains an article of faith among conservatives...
...first five years the institution isinvesting in the dean, and the payoff is notimmediate because there are a lot of things tolearn," says Associate Dean for Academic PlanningPhyllis Keller, one of Spence's chief assistants."And he has set out to learn them all, trying toeducate himself about what the needs of theCollege are, really to the end of the century...