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FUND FEES ADD UP No matter how much cash Americans plow into mutual funds--$5.5 trillion at last count--most still can't get a handle on what they're paying managers to run them. So last week the SEC introduced an interactive calculator www.sec.gov to show how those confounding fees--front-end loads (sales-charges), expense ratios--add up over time. Two $15 billion large-growth funds--one load, one no-load--can generate very different costs. Use the calculator to help find out if your fund managers are worth the price...
After a season filled with intense games ending in last minute-losses, the Harvard women's lacrosse team is ready to plow through its competition in 1999, starting with UMass on Sunday at Amherst, in the season opener for both teams...
...normally placed its treated sludge on soybean cropland, but by the second summer, city officials were in search of more land. As Sparks recalls, "We had so much sludge accumulation that...we had to go out in the middle of the summer, buy a crop [for $36,000] and plow it under because our storage capacity was exceeded...
Among the subsidies: Texas County borrowed $8 million to plow into the company up front. To pay off the loan, the county enacted a 1% sales tax. The state granted a $4 million, 10-year income tax credit with the understanding that it was "unlikely" the company would pay any income tax during those 10 years. The state spent $600,000 to train Seaboard's workers. The company received grants and low-interest loans to finance a waste-pretreatment plant. (Remember the one in Albert Lea?) The company was excused from paying $2.9 million in real estate taxes...
...Redskins vs. Vikings, 1988 NFL Play-Off Game: D.C. Mayor Barry and St. Paul, Minn., Mayor Latimer promised that whoever lost would plow snow during the other city's first snowstorm...