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...accommodate adding women's sports without subtracting men's. It was helped in this by the fact that there are no professional sports teams in Connecticut, making Husky teams literally the only game in town. The state has been generous, and among other things, is helping pick up the tab for a new football stadium, which will be ready for opening day this fall. Additionally, the women's basketball team is one of only a handful in the country that make money from a contract with Connecticut public television and ticket sales to its sold-out games. Today UConn...
...club, hit the weights, shoot some hoops, take a shower and eat dinner there," says Luke Porter, 16, who first walked on a treadmill alongside his dad at age 5 and says he practically lives at the MAC. "My dad tells me I've run up quite a tab...
...year. Not every European nation is so afflicted; in parts of Europe, absentee rates are falling. But all told, absenteeism costs Europe tens of billions of euros annually. In many nations, employers cover the bulk of initial sick-pay costs, and then governments step in and pick up the tab. And as the economic crunch continues, both governments and corporations are watching their employees' health as carefully as their fiscal health - and trying to get staff to work at full capacity. But grand initiatives to boost attendance have run aground due to everything from union pressure to slack doctors...
...Young Al still had high-art ideals, and with an uncle's largesse ($500, which for the mid-20s was very large indeed), he sailed for a year in Europe. With two other budding painters he rented a Paris flat; his part of the tab was $33 - a year. One day, after seeing a show with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps, Al scrawled a sketch of Guitry on a menu. A friend told him the sketch might be publishable if on white paper it were redrawn. In a trice, Hirschfeld produced a clean version. In a fource, the Herald Tribune...
...increase in the tax credit per child. The proposal would also speed relief from the marriage penalty and alternative minimum tax and lift expense allowances for small businesses. Including a few other measures, the total package would remove $674 billion from federal coffers; after interest on the debt, the tab over a decade could be more than $900 billion...