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...vegetable exports in the past three years, canning, asphalt and concrete-block plants, a 12% drop in dependence on food imports and a 50% increase in fresh-water production since the 1979 coup. The government even managed a $2.5 million surplus in 1982, half of which went to repay the country's past debts. Social tranquillity has appeared: the major crime in Grenada is "praedial larceny," the theft of garden vegetables. Some of the government's highest marks, in fact, come from its chief critics. "I would vote for them if they trusted us with a free vote...
...with a degree in a field most helpful to a golfer, psychology, Ray Watson and several of his usual playing partners staked Flytrap Finnegan to $18,000 in expense money for a try at the tour. By the last event of the year, Watson had won just enough to repay them. The next season he paid them dividends. Beamed one of the investors, Bob Willits: "Fly is better than General Motors." In the years since, Watson has won as much as $360,000, $460,000, $530,000 a year, almost $3 million...
Harvard officials counter that the University, while not paying taxes, does repay the city in several forms. Harvard "performs valuable public services which otherwise would be performed by government itself," spokesman David Rosen says...
...President's budget request of last year would have drastically reduced financial aid through Pell Grants. It would have done away with the work study program. It would have made graduate students ineligible for student loans. It would have made student loans harder to get and harder to repay. All in all if Congress had accepted that budget for the current fiscal year verbatim, it would have made it significantly harder for some two million young Americans to attend college. We did not accept it, we altered it, we changed it and added money into the supplemental appropriations bill...
Johnson's victory is one of the latest and largest in an accelerating movement by angry victims and their relatives who want a larger slice of justice. Lawmakers are backing them up. Thirty-six states have created victims' compensation programs to repay some of the medical costs and lost income. Last week the nine-member President's Task Force on Victims of Crime urged all states to undertake such programs. "We've got to raise the status of the victim," said Lois Haight Herrington, who headed the task force. The report pointed out that the prey...