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...House budget leader has said that this year's fiscal woes are the result of overspending and are not due to a revenue problem, as the governor maintains. He has said that possible solutions to this year's budget crunch include short-term borrowing, a one-time tax increase or unanticipated revenue growth in the final months of the fiscal year...
...statement, the attorney general's office said the raid by Federal Judicial Police agents was the result of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's vow to clean up drug dealing and corruption in Mexico...
Like Sasha, almost everyone in the group has undergone compulsory hospitalization, some as many as seven times. The hospital stays can last as long as six months, and patients are often treated with sulfazine, a drug that induces high fever. The intended result: to sweat the toxins out of the body and thus shock it into a change of behavior. The drug's effects are not long lasting, and Western doctors refuse...
...Those assigned to do so are often too embarrassed even to use animals to illustrate their points. Instead, they talk about sexual reproduction in plants or avoid the topic altogether. The effect is that many schools essentially have no sex education at all. Though that is mostly the result of sheer backwardness, some of the delay also stems from active opposition. Just as in the U.S., those against sex education have accused its proponents of conspiring to undermine the morals of youth...
Milken's unprecedented income was the result of his employment contract with Drexel, where he has been the firm's biggest source of profits as head of its Beverly Hills-based junk-bond department. Milken almost single-handedly created the junk-bond market, which has grown from $1 billion in 1981 to $180 billion last year. His downfall began three years ago, when arbitrager Ivan Boesky, collared on insider-trading charges, began singing to prosecutors about alleged stock-fraud schemes he carried out with Milken and Drexel. Last December Drexel struck a deal with prosecutors that called for the firm...