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...university official yesterday downplayed the significance of the $1.1 million shortfall, saying it was an insignificant sum when compared with the school's $400 million annual budget. But the official, Princeton's Financial Vice President Richard R. Spies, said the deficit was serious enough to warrant a series of cutbacks in university spending. "A million dollars is a substantial amounty of money by anybody's reckoning," he said...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Princeton Posts $1.1 Million Deficit | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

...roots organization throughout Texas' 254 counties and a pile of money. Bentsen is simultaneously running for re- election to the Senate and for Vice President. (If elected to both offices, he will resign his Senate seat.) He may spend as much as $10 million promoting his senatorial candidacy. That sum will not count against the legal limits on presidential campaign spending, but inevitably Dukakis will get at least some indirect benefit from his running mate's well-financed self-promotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Over The Big Three | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...Horner also spoke of obstacles to women seeking leadership positions such as the perceptions people have of the "proper" roles for each sex and the belief among some that power could not be shared with women, only transferred in a "zero-sum game...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Future Women Leaders Meet | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

Though not as sick as the S and L business, the commercial-banking industry has major difficulties all its own. Chief among them is the seemingly never ending saga of Third World debt. The ten largest banks have more than $50 billion on loan to developing countries. This sum amounts to roughly 100% of their shareholders' equity; if all the loans went into default, the banks' capital would be wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracks in The System | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...sum up, the United States has told its Southern neighbors to Just...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No More Good Neighbor | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

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