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...effort to make the bill more acceptable to legislators, the Democratic leadership will now propose an increase in the state sales tax from 5 to 6 percent, Keverian said. The initial legislation called for a tax increase to 7 percent...
Considerable opposition from both parties still exists to the revenue package, which contains a 50 percent increase in the capital gains tax and a 10 cent surcharge on gasoline prices for two years...
...honest forums on AIDS can not only head off the spread of AIDS, but can significantly reduce other problems associated with sexuality. Statistics have shown that education has produced not only a decline in the rate of new infections of AIDS, but a decrease of as much as 95 percent among gay populations of other sexually-transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea and syphilis...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence saidadministrators are discussing whether to increasethe number of foreign students at the College by3.5 percent of the total enrollment. He emphasizedthat such a program would have to be implementedgradually...
Fitzsimmons said that the College's efforts arealready showing some positive results. The numberof foreign students in the Class of 1993 increasedby about 150 from the 134 enrolled in the previousclass, he said. The number of foreign earlyapplicants increased 66.5 percent over the pastyear, from 48 to 81, he said...