Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court was aware that the issue in question was not merely transportation per se, but the importance of public education. In writing the majority decision, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor addressed the issue directly: "Nor have we accepted the proposition that education is a fundamental right like equality of the franchise, which should trigger strict scrutiny when the government interferes with an individual's access...
Everyone should be covered automatically. Auto-insurance "premiums" should be added to the cost of gasoline. It would come to about 50 cents per gal., but there would be no other auto-insurance premiums to pay. You would be fully covered, after a $500 deductible. Collecting the premiums automatically this way would save a fortune in selling and administrative costs. And it would end the problem of people driving uninsured...
...Crimson will host either Yale, RPI, Vermont or Dartmouth in the two-game series at Bright Center on Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4. Both games will be at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $4 per game with coupons...
...nobody's surprise, drugs played a part in each of these shootings. Thanks to a competitive crack market, Washington's murder rate has climbed to a national high of almost two per day. There have already been 75 D.C. homocides this year...
Troubled S & Ls are heavily concentrated in Texas and California, where state thrift regulations were loose and local economies had booms and busts. Many Texas thrift owners who pumped money into energy ventures when oil sold for $29 per bbl. in 1983 saw their collateral collapse in value when prices plummeted below $10 in 1986. In California some thrifts invested in real estate markets that became glutted, including Los Angeles office towers and Beverly Hills condominiums...