Cornell College receives a $20 million gift pledge
The Small family pledges twenty million dollars to Cornell College as part of a grand fundraising plan to raise at least eighty five million dollars for endowment scholarships chairs a new fine arts facility and library expansion The commitment comes amid a long term effort to boost academic standing and resources with support from trustees alumni and state leaders including Governor Branstad and Markers.
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Colege
Cornell
Marker
Dennis Moore
Moore
Smalls
John D. MacGregor
Bill Cosby
Spellman College
Georgia
Pomona College
California
Cornell College
Iowa College
Buena Vista College
Harold Siebens
Storm Lake
University of Iowa Foundation
U of I
Deficit and Budget Deal Dominate Congress Action
Washington reports a 1990 deficit of 220.4 billion as the Senate and House push a broad budget package. The package includes a 14 cent gasoline tax, new pollution controls, stricter bank sanctions, nutrition labeling, and substantial Medicare changes affecting doctors, hospitals, and elderly beneficiaries.
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White House
Bush
California
Treasury Department
House
Senate
United States
Congress
Congressional Black Caucus
Student billed for roof after eight story fall in Finland
A student who fell eight stories while climbing in through a locked apartment window in August in Oulu northern Finland was billed over 1300 for roof repairs. Police say initial misjudgment of the act as attempted suicide was corrected when it was learned he could not find his keys.
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Helsinki
Finland
Gust
Oulu
Tapio Perala
Perala
Gala dress code dazzles Mount Vernon crowd at Cornell College
Hundreds attended the Cornell College gala in Mount Vernon with about 300 men wearing suits from Bauman and Co. as townsfolk and students learned tuxedo basics for the first time in rural Iowa. The event featured waitresses in tuxedos and recalled Fred Astaire as spats and cummerbunds cinched for the dinner.
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Donna Lee Olson
Lazette
Fred Astaire
Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Bauman and Co
Mike Smith
Smith
Iowa
Cornell
Journalist Terry Anderson Turns 43 in Captivity
In Beirut, the Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson marks his 43rd birthday as the longest-held of 13 Westerners missing in Lebanon since his kidnapping on March 16, 1985. Captors are described as pro-Iranian with no sign of imminent release. Former hostage Brian Keenan recalls time spent with Anderson.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Terry Anderson
Anderson
Middle East
Associated Press
Brian Keenan
Northern Ireland
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Small
TriStar Aerospace Inc
Deerfield Beach
Fla
Cheker Oil Co
Marathon Petroleum Company
TriStar
Norma Small
Cecil Thomas
Bob Thomas
Richard Small
Gov. Terry Branstad
Bowman
Gazette
Iowa City
Oelwein
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Née
Lebeda
Lleol
Ume
Headeo
Lectric Jofas
Tore and
Sei
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