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...Barney, his motives were simpler. As thedinosaur slapped hands with a four-year-old girl,a voice emanated from inside the massive, purplefelt head. "I'm just here because I want to helpall the boys and girls whose parents work atHarvard. I'll get dressed up like this every dayif it helps the union get a contract...
...loss was only slightly simpler to assess...
...only would the learning be better, but the logistics of the Core would also be simpler. It would be easier to estimate the number of students in a class if there were a large number of offerings each year, because the number would not fluctuate wildly according to the number of offerings in a particular field. Books and teaching fellows would be available from the first day of class...
Republican presidential hopeful Dick Lugartoday proposed eliminating federal income, capital gains and inheritance taxes and replacing them with a 17 percent national sales tax. The Indiana senator saidstates would collect the money, creating a simpler tax system by eliminating the IRS. Such a system would be regressive, however, since lower-income people spend more of their income in cash transactions. TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson adds that another problem with the proposal is that retailers could find ways to avert the tax and there would be no national authority to catch them. Lugar contends much of the sales tax would...
Barings may have wanted to look the other way. They had allowed Leeson to remain chief trader while also being responsible for settling his trades. At most banks the two jobs are split because allowing a trader to settle his own deals makes it simpler for him to hide the risks he is taking-or the money he is losing. As early as March 1992, an internal fax warned that "we are in danger of setting up a structure which will prove disastrous, in which we could succeed in losing either a lot of money, client goodwill or both...