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Rudenstine said the law does not permit the University to sustain annual deficits of $10 million or more in funding. If such shortfalls continue, Harvard would have to dip into its endowment to pay off the debt, he said...
...difficult but correct decision for American society is to permit free speech, even speech that the majority does not like and may have negative consequences...
...effort to take over Du Pont, but it sought and got proportional representation on the Du Pont board. Seagram counts as part of its own profits not just dividends from Du Pont but a proportionate share -- that is, 24% -- of Du Pont's undistributed earnings. Corporate accounting rules permit a company to do that if it owns 20% or more of another firm -- and that is why some stock analysts think Seagram may well boost its share in Time Warner past that threshold...
...Although the White House insists it has been debating a new course for some time, it's clear that the news coverage of Robinson's fast and the sight of members of Congress being arrested for protesting the President's policy in front of the White House without a permit had become a major embarrassment...
Would you permit the police to search your home, at will and without a warrant, if doing so would reduce crime? Defying his liberal constituency, Bill Clinton says if you're one of the 3 million mostly poor and mostly black Americans living in the nation's 17,491 public housing projects, you would -- and you should. Acting on that conviction, the President is urging local housing agencies to rewrite their leases so residents can allow cops to do just that...