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...cents] to 30[cents] goes to administration. Edison spends around 16[cents] and plans to cut that to 8[cents]. "The money we save on central costs goes to the schools, and a portion goes to the bottom line," Whittle says. His goal is a 7%-to-8% profit margin. "If we were simply going to cut overall costs," he notes, "we would not be viable." Whittle puts the magic number of schools that Edison needs to run in order to make a profit at 440, a figure that he expects to hit within five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School for Profit | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...bill passed by a wide margin, but not before an exhaustive debate that lasted over an hour and touched on the finer points of criminal justice, philosophy and linguistics...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Passes Statement on Diallo, Questions Political Role | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...Harvard responded late in the third with two goals of its own. At the 16:07 mark, Shewchuk finished off a shot by Ruggiero to increase the margin to four goals. And Ruggiero wasted less than a minute to score her third goal of the game, sneaking the puck through Stein's legs from the side...

Author: By Erica R. St. john, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Ousts St. Lawrence From ECACs | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...been a monolithic group; many of them have their differences with the Robertson crowd and are far more tolerant than the Bob Jones wing. And yet many took McCain's salvo personally, as an attack on their convictions and their role in the Republican coalition. Bush's 9-point margin in Virginia the next day owed a lot to the fact that Christian conservatives turned out in large numbers and voted for him 4 to 1, an even higher ratio than in past races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire And Brimstone | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...China's communist cadres continue their country's policy of zero population growth while The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keeps garnering converts and encouraging large families to the tune of, say, five percent expansion a year. By 2099, Mormons will outnumber Chinese by a healthy margin of 65,012,578 men, women and children...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: Just Say Uh-Oh to Drug Testing | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

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