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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with steady dark eyes and a soft voice, Koskotas is no common embezzler. In addition to the Bank of Crete, he owned Grammi, a flourishing publishing empire that operated five magazines, three newspapers and a radio station. He bankrolled big hotels. A year ago, he bought Greece's wildly popular soccer team, Olympiakos. He created one of the world's most advanced printing plants. And until he fled Greece, Koskotas consorted freely with the country's ruling Socialist leaders. At 34, George Koskotas, the Greek wunderkind, had achieved a dazzling reputation in his own land...
Another time Papandreou had an unexpected idea: Koskotas should purchase the Olympiakos football team. Papandreou, according to Koskotas, wanted the banker to build up the team, so that just before the 1989 election the government would agree to build Olympiakos a new stadium, an announcement certain to be highly popular. Koskotas laid out 4 billion drachmas for the plan...
...further. It is phasing in a plan that by 1990 will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state. More than 20 other states have passed or are considering bills that would permit students to patronize the best schools and flee substandard ones. Naturally, the most popular schools get the most money...
This is one of the report's surprises; many people have long believed the more protein the better. In fact, some popular weight-loss schemes have been based on high-protein intake. But the panel notes that diets rich in animal protein have no known benefits and may increase the risk of colon or breast cancer. Whether protein is the villain is not clear, however, since meats are typically loaded with...
...city as popular as Cambridge, demand for retail housing is greater than supply. That means that in an unregulated market, with fewer than 1 percent of rental apartments vacant, market rents would skyrocket...