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During the last decade, money made from investments and then distributed for use by the University's programs (as opposed to being plowed back into investment funds) has increased at a compound rate of 6.9 per cent, well below the compound rate of increase in University expenses of 7.6 per cent for the same period. Over the last ten years, the share of total University income provided by the endowment declined from 20.9 per cent to 19.5 per cent. Similarly, the proportion of total income provided by gifts and government grants also declined. Only miscellaneous and student sources of income...
...mutton chops. For years U.S. sheepmen have trapped them, shot them from airplanes, and laid out wholesale poisons. But in 1972 the Nixon Administration banned the use of poison on federal grazing lands because it kills more than just coyotes. The scattered chemicals-usually a nerve drug called Compound 1080-also felled birds, including endangered species like the bald eagle, not to mention foxes, badgers, opossums, raccoons and pet dogs...
...ammunition that was used at another pawn shop, this one in Lubbock, Texas. The type of bullet he chose was interesting-and frightening. The cartridges were Devastators, made by Bingham Ltd. of Norcross, Ga. These projectiles, akin to dumdum bullets, contain a small aluminum canister filled with an explosive compound. They cost at least twelve times as much as ordinary .22-cal. slugs...
Upon impact the unstable compound is supposed to explode and fragment the bullet, although most of the ones that Hinckley shot, including the one that hit Reagan, failed to do so. Bingham spokesmen say that the Devastator was developed for use by sky marshals in hijacking cases. By fragmenting, the bullet would quickly incapacitate a person but would be less likely than an ordinary bullet to pass through him or to puncture the outer skin of an airplane. Because of manufacturing difficulties, the company stopped producing the Devastator last...
...Government, Allen became a consultant for various businesses overseas, a career that was almost ended when he crashed his Beechcraft Bonanza while landing, suffering five compound fractures in his lower body. As a result he has a loping gait that gives the look of an energetic sea captain walking the deck in unsettled waters. That appearance was appropriate for the troubles that confronted him in his profitable enterprises. There were constant rumors that he had benefited unduly from his connections with the Nixon White House. A damaging exposé in the Wall Street Journal a few days before...