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Death of a U.N. Diplomat: Soviet Legacy Lingers in Cold War Case
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
11.24.1999
Forty Years ago, on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1959, two men walking through Alley Pond Park in New York discovered the body of man, shot through the head. The police wrote it off as a suicide, ignoring evidence of assassination in a case that the United Nations prefers to forget, and which remains an unfinished chapter of the Cold War.
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Governor Leavitt’s Internet Taxation Plan Wrong All Around
Press Release
11.19.1999
San Francisco, CA - Utah Governor Michael Leavitt’s Internet taxation plan, "Streamlined Sales Tax System for the 21st Century," released today on behalf of the National Governors Association (NGA), would increase costs for consumers, slow economic growth, and create barriers to Net access, especially for the poor, according to Sonia Arrison, director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Freedom and Technology.
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New Study Says Spending One-Fifth Higher than Official State Figure
Press Release
11.19.1999
San Francisco, CA – Per student K-12 public school spending in California is almost one-fifth higher than the official state figure of $6025, according to a new briefing published jointly by the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) and California Parents for Educational Choice.
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Governor Leavitt’s Internet Taxation Plan Wrong All Around
Press Release
11.16.1999
San Francisco, CA - Utah Governor Michael Leavitt’s Internet taxation plan, "Streamlined Sales Tax System for the 21st Century," released today on behalf of the National Governors Association (NGA), would increase costs for consumers, slow economic growth, and create barriers to Net access, especially for the poor, according to Sonia Arrison, director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Freedom and Technology.
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