Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Last week, in a bid to raise capital, Equitable Life Assurance Society, the third largest U.S. insurer, announced it will convert to a stock-owned company. The $500 million in additional capital that chairman Richard Jenrette expects to raise through the stock sale will help offset large losses from risky ventures: junk bonds, real estate and high-interest guaranteed- investment contracts. It will also make it easier for the company to diversify...
...budget, Bush requested a $100 million increase in the education programs of the National Science Foundation and $230 million to help states improve math and science teaching. But such paltry amounts will not catapult U.S. students from last to first place worldwide in math and science by the year 2000, another goal. Unless Bush does much more -- starting with choosing an inspiring Education Secretary -- he deserves no better than an Incomplete on his report card...
...example, the welfare system is cut back," says Fawzi al-Sultan, "if a person who has three servants, which is not unusual, suddenly has to pay the medical bills of those servants in place of the government, then that person is going to think twice about having three as help. So market forces can do the job. It takes more time, but it may be less risky politically...
...homegrown pollution as well as grime floating in from the east. Expenditures on environmental protection in Western Europe have increased from $46 billion in 1987 to $73 billion this year, and are expected to rise 75% more by the year 2000. Additional funds and technology will undoubtedly go to help neighbors to the east modernize their industries and fight pollution. Both Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have offered to help Poland cleanse its air. Klaus Matthiesen, environment minister of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia, notes that spending on environmental preservation "must be regarded as an important motor...
...powerful speaker of the California assembly is known for his dealmaking abilities, but the Democrat's cameo in Godfather III, directed by pal Francis Ford Coppola, will surely raise eyebrows. In the film, Brown asks Mafia don Michael Corleone for help in securing a judgeship for an associate...