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...school reversed a fiscal year 2002 deficit of $5.9 million and ran a modest surplus last year. But balancing the budget came at a steep cost: the school cut 47 staff positions...
...Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along the banks of the Douro River, from its mouth on the Atlantic all the way up to the Spanish border. To this day, most of the wine warehouses, called caves do vinho do porto (lodges), in Vila Nova de Gaia across from the city of Porto...
Children of the poor face especially steep odds in fighting obesity. The cash-strapped schools many of them attend are more likely than others to cut physical-education classes and strike franchise deals with snack-food and beverage makers. After school, working parents would rather their kids stay inside watching TV than play outside in unsafe streets. Those hours in front of the tube, meanwhile, feed them a diet of ads heavy on sugary cereals and greasy burgers. No wonder obese adolescents are twice as likely to come from low-income families...
Cheney is linked to his old firm in at least one other way. His recently filed 2003 financial-disclosure form reveals that Halliburton last year invoked an insurance policy to indemnify Cheney for what could be steep legal bills "arising from his service" at the company. Past and present Halliburton execs face an array of potentially costly litigation, including multibillion-dollar asbestos claims...
...Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along the banks of the Douro River from its mouth on the Atlantic all the way up to the Spanish border. To this day, most of the wine warehouses, called caves do vinho Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...