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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three MIT students involved in a Halloween prank that went awry were ordered Friday to pay $1,306 to the city of Cambridge...
...dictator, Fidel Castro, has chafed, rattled and raged under the cold-war headlock of a U.S. trade embargo. But this past summer the wily presidente sensed an opening. Philadelphia health-care-products giant SmithKline Beecham (a subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise, he approved...
...business. Canadian and European executives warn that the island is an emerging market the way molasses is a river: the socialist bureaucracy is maddening; the military, headed by Castro's brother Raul, plays an inordinate role in business affairs; and some 85% of the wages that foreign companies pay impoverished Cuban workers (who make an average $15 a month) ends up in government coffers. Cuba's post-Soviet economy has made a comeback since it crashed in 1993, but the country has garnered less than $3 billion in foreign investment in the '90s--largely because Castro remains ideologically opposed...
...million Amount the government says it will pay for the collection--or less than 6[cents] a page...
...Amount a Florida restaurateur agreed to pay an African-American couple for arbitrarily adding a 15% gratuity to their bill and claiming that "black people don't tip well...