Word: priore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert M. Hyman '98-'97, who is seeking his second term as council president and three-term council veteran Wesley B. Gilchrist '98 met in an informal debate prior to the Sunday council election...
Galluccio said he was not approached by Reeves prior to the meeting and that the Alliance councillors' attitude was "ludicrous...
...provocative title suggests, Ignatiev's project is explaining the process of this transformation along with the concomitant results for black as well as white America prior to the Civil War. In an effort to synthesize ethnic studies with Afro-American studies and labor history, he has also taken on the formidable task of examining the political, social and intellectual history which confirmed discrimination along color lines after blacks had begun to form a middle class. It's not enough that scholarship from the likes of Peter Wood and Kenneth Stampp established that slavery itself was market driven; Ignatiev also wants...
Despite Forbes' claims to the contrary, his flat tax proposal would increase the budget deficit. Even he admits that his proposal could cost the government as much as $200 billion a year in revenues. Given such a sum and prior experience with the Reagan era tax cuts, Forbes' claim that economic growth would more than compensate for the lost revenue cannot be taken seriously. The Reagan-era tax cuts generated only enough additional revenue through the supply-side to offset a third of the lost revenues. Forbes' proposal is unlikely to do three times as well...
...more, sometimes much more. For boosting the Magic Kingdom's stock price 28% and orchestrating a $19 billion merger (the second largest in U.S. history) with Capital Cities/ABC, Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner took home a $14.8 million compensation package, outpacing his prior year's pay nearly 40%. Campbell Soup chairman David Johnson savored a raise to $6.6 million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen...