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...nearly seven years since Time Warner was formed, its stock has trailed the market badly, up 32% while the Standard & Poor's index has risen 100%. The merger may help. Time Warner rose 5.7% last week, to $41.75. Part of that may be due to Turner's advent, but it also reflects Levin's promise that he's ready to purge the company's onerous level of indebtedness...
...variety of reasons, administrative costs have risen at all universities and colleges," he says...
...financial reports also show that administrative costs have risen dramatically in the same period. This was caused, officials say, by the college's creation and centralization of departments which they say will be vital to Radcliffe in the next century...
Unlike Nixon, Agnew was not granted tragic hero status, primarily because he had nowhere to fall from. Although Agnew had rapidly risen from obscurity to national prominence like Nixon, his ascent was never considered a mark of political acumen or leadership skill. In fact, his selection as Nixon's running mate has been primarily attributed to his bitter outburst at Baltimore's black leaders and to the machinations of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond. In his outburst, Agnew blamed Stokely Carmichael's presence in Baltimore for the riots in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Such lunacy...
...five long years, the Pentagon steadfastly insisted there was no evidence that U.S. soldiers were exposed to poison gas during the Gulf War. Assurances began to evaporate recently, and by last week the Pentagon's own count of G.I.s who may have been tainted by deadly fumes had risen so fast it reached potentially 1 out of every 100 Americans who served in the gulf...