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...passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth of the International is roughly $60 million today, down from $154 million in 1991. At the current rate of brotherly rot, the union will be insolvent by 1995 unless Carey seeks and achieves a politically unpopular dues increase...
...heartburn-causing and chemically addictive." That applies to "Dota Blend" just as accurately as to Dunkin Donuts' 50-cent special. It is instructive to note that for decades, conventional wisdom had it that coffee caused ulcers. (In fact, the real culprit was H. pylori bacteria.) If coffee doesn't rot out your gut, it tastes like it should...
McNeal and co-manager Nicholas W. Saparoff '93 both said they are closing the grill prematurely for practical reasons. "It's near the end of the year. We don't want to order more food and have it rot," Saparoff said...
Actually, this was never much of a threat. After decades of heinously self-interested Cold War foreign policy, the danger that a single humanitarian precedent could send the U.S. down the path of no return is inconceivable. As we let the Kurds rot in northern Iraq, it is simply comic to imagine us committing our military to a policy of global famine prevention...
Although most overseas-job firms operate legally, few deliver on their promises of $70,000-plus jobs in exotic locales. Only an estimated 2% of their + customers ever get a job. Police say refunds are rare. "I'd like to see these guys rot in hell," says Bill Dwyer, a 43-year-old New Jersey electrician who scrounged together $295 after a Florida job agency told him he would have a choice of assignments in Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Acapulco, Mexico. Out of work for three years, he dreamed of sending his kids to college...