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...point where trying to follow the tuition trail becomes about as easy as tracking a particular cup of water through a faucet. It is almost impossible to say exactly what tuition pays for and what it doesn't, other than to say that it constitutes the major portion of the university's general fund and that anything paid for from the general fund is thus paid for in part by tuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY COLLEGES COST TOO MUCH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...made the $3 million withdrawal in 11 billion sucres, the national currency, on Feb. 6, the day Bucaram was ousted from office. He says he delivered the money in bags to Bucaram's secretary Oscar Celleri, who remains at large. That self-imposed severance pa ckage is just one portion of what the current government says was a scourge of corruption in which Bucaram and his aides cheated Ecuador out of untold millions during his six months in office. On Friday, the Supreme Court charged Bucaram and four top ai des with corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and influence peddling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen Parachute | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...which has much to gain if Americans are scared into privatizing Social Security. Even partial privatization could put in excess of $150 billion into the hands of Wall Street fund managers. Management fees on $150 billion is not small change. Small wonder that Wall Street is behind a significant portion of the millions of dollars that have already been spent to push privatization...

Author: By Thomas C. Rollins, | Title: Nothing Learned from the Depression | 3/7/1997 | See Source »

...centerpiece of Russian renewal, Yeltsin insisted, must be filli ng the national coffers--and improving their distribution. To that end, he announced that "taxation reform is my economic task for this year" and made a goal of GNP growth of not less than 2 percent. As if that portion of the speech were for t he Russia people, and perhaps for the anxious West and the IMF, Yeltsin then seemed to turn his attentions to nationalist hawks assembled before him. He reiterated Russia's opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he said was an attempt to "take Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Order of the Day | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

Springer, the Latham Professor of Pathology, and Bleul, a fellow in pathology at the Center for Blood Research, found that the T-tropic strain attacks a different portion of the immune system than does an earlier strain of HIV, called M-tropic strain...

Author: By Ayanna A. Lonian, | Title: HMS Faculty Isolate Secondary Strain of HIV | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

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