Statue of Liberty tops poll for new dollar coin event
A GAO poll shows 65 percent of adults favor the Statue of Liberty on the next dollar coin while 27 percent back Sacagawea. Treasury officials say Rubin will keep Sacagawea as the design, following an advisory panel's recommendation.
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New York landlord guilty of hiring hitman to kill tenants
Alvin Weiss pleaded guilty to hiring a hit man to kill two tenants who complained about apartment conditions and to planning a fire in one unit. He also admitted forging a will to obtain a broker's $400000 estate and committing tax fraud. Tenants were not harmed as the plot was revealed to police. Prosecutors described Weiss as a slumlord living in a $2 million Brooklyn home while neglecting about 30 Manhattan Lower East Side buildings.
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Reparations set for WWII internees
The document notes reparations and a letter of apology to Latin American Japanese descent internees in U S camps under a Clinton settlement. About $5,000 per eligible person is planned, but only roughly half will receive funds as the fund nears depletion and Congress has not replenished it.
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Clinton seeks $600 million for after school programs
President Clinton announced a fiscal 2000 budget plan to triple funding for after school and 21st Century Learning Center programs, aiming to keep millions of children in supervised activities after class. He linked eligibility to ending social promotions and called for schoolhouse rather than street time.
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Juries produce eight big verdicts above $100 million in 1998
The Lawyers Weekly USA tally shows eight of the 10 largest verdicts in 1998 topped $100 million, totaling $2.8 billion. Inflation is not the courtroom says Thomas Harrison as juries target big business, with cases like last year’s $144.9 million Ford Ranger rollover, including $120 million punitive damages.
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