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From 1978 until 1991, when he became President Bush's Secretary of Education, Alexander increased his net worth at least tenfold, to somewhere between $1.5 million and $3 million. During that time, he spent all but 18 months in public office as Governor and president of the University of Tennessee. He and his wife made quick profits, with little money down, in investments offered by political backers and men who did business with the state. While he was Governor in 1981, Alexander joined a group of investors who obtained an option to buy the Knoxville Journal. Alexander...
...defeats what we're trying to do because it's going to be discredited," says David Pilgrim, a sociologist at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. "All the good reasons why it was proposed are going to come back tenfold as negatives on the black community -- and on the black intellectual community specifically." Pilgrim, who is black, calls the claims of the extremists "pseudoscience" and "reverse Jensenism," referring to the controversial theories of Arthur Jensen, who argued that blacks were genetically less intelligent on average than whites...
...Michael Jordan to take the sport into the promised land of perpetually full arenas and high Nielsen ratings. Everybody liked Mike. The N.B.A. groomed Jordan just the way his corporate sponsors did. In his nine years as a player in Chicago, the value of the Bulls franchise increased nearly tenfold. In 1984, Jordan's rookie year, only 14% of Bull home games were sold out; last year none of the Bulls' 41 home games had an empty seat. The Bulls are a microcosm of the N.B.A. In 1984 the N.B.A.'s revenue from television was a little over $30 million...
...year and has invaded all Northeastern states except Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island. In New York, which now leads the nation in animal-rabies cases (1,761 last year), the number of people who got shots after they thought they were exposed to the disease has risen more than tenfold, from 81 in 1989 to 1,088 last year...
...drive to immunize is a priority of Hillary Rodham Clinton's. At a conference in Pennsylvania, the First Lady chided drug firms for raising vaccine prices more than tenfold since 1981. The next day President Clinton echoed that theme, charging drugmakers with seeking "profits at the expense of our children." The companies say high prices result from product-liability suits aimed at the industry...