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...reaping a windfall gain of something on the order of $40 billion" from the crisis by stepping up oil production and selling crude at higher prices. Other estimates run up to $50 billion a year. Western diplomats in Riyadh assert, however, that such calculations assume a price of $30 per bbl. maintained for a full year and that current prices are well below that. They estimate the Saudi windfall at $8 billion to $10 billion during the first five months of the crisis, which would project to $19 billion to $24 billion a year...
...only now beginning to understand is that, at any one time, the Review represents the views of no more than 20-odd undergraduates. Moreover, its continued existence and national impact are made possible only by generous subsidies from outside sources whose own agenda has little to so with Dartmouth per...
...minimalist schedule helps hold down costs at the stores, which are typically low-rent, warehouse-like places with cement floors. Aside from a single manager per store, all employees are part time; many are recruited from the ranks of loyal customers, tempted by the 20% employee discount. The company stocks its shelves with closeout lines acquired at a fraction of their original price. Typical offerings range from Waterford crystal frames ($24.99 ) to Fendi mufflers ($19.99) to Spode china...
...been going on for years and has been accelerated by the economy's recent nose dive and the drying up of ad revenues. But the crunch has become more urgent because of the budget-busting Persian Gulf crisis, which has cost the networks as much as $3 million combined per week (though less than half that in recent weeks). "What it means is no budget or people for anything else," says one CBS correspondent. "God help us if another big story breaks...
There are hundreds of teenagers like Alice in the South Bronx, a crumbling stretch of New York City with one of the country's lowest per capita incomes. They stake out street corners and empty parks. They live in abandoned buildings, discarded cars, rusting boilers and cardboard boxes. Most come from broken homes with abusive parents. Nearly all are addicts, have severe medical problems and are regularly beaten by their customers. Some are killed. In order to aid these kids, Planned Parenthood of New York founded Project Street Beat, a neighborhood organization that trolls the Bronx, visiting the places where...