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...Gardner paintings would be worth a tidy sum on the legitimate art market, though nowhere near the ridiculously exaggerated figure of $200 million or so that was trumpeted all last week on the front pages and TV. The Vermeer could be worth $70 million, the Rembrandt seapiece $15 million and the rest a lot less: the five Degas being trivial and the Manet not much better. So why the inflation? It is a standard police technique to increase publicity and make fencing more difficult for the thieves, who are apt to get their notions of value from press reports...
Congress is finally moving to redress this lingering wrong. Last week a Senate energy subcommittee held a hearing in Shiprock, N. Mex., on legislation that would provide $100 million in compensation to miners and their families. As part of that sum, up to $50,000 would be granted to people exposed to radiation as a result of nuclear-bomb tests. The Justice Department, however, opposes the bill, arguing that the compensation amounts to a costly "entitlement program...
...sum, they see a University that treats them as day laborers for eight years before summarily jettisoning them without any sense of remorse...
...sum, when the investigation ball was in Harvard's court, Harvard hit the showers," Kramer said. "And it cannot blame Merrill Lynch...
...School has agreed to make up the sum when the foundation grant runs out, but that still leaves the AIP with an operating budget of $18,000, all of which goes to the part-time salary of its director, Dr. Bette Haskins, Begay says...