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NMIRF infuses Imprest Fund

The Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund has recently poured money into the Health Department's $2 million worth Imprest Fund, six months after the law creating the account for the hospital's pharmaceutical needs was signed.

Posted On Jan 14 1999 00:00

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Click it into the next millennium

All set to head into the next 100 years (millennium), I packed good old faithful (typewriter) and bid adieu to a piece of equipment so dear to all journalists. Technology certainly has a way of replacing the "now" fad from appliances to walkman and regular telephone units. This...

Posted On Jan 14 1999 00:00

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The coming economic circus

It was just a matter of time before calls came to increase the taxes on the garment industry yet again, and whispers to that effect are now starting to circulate. One proposal is to crank up the user tax by 35 percent, from the current 3.7 percent rate to a five percent rate.

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This dastardly attack

The anticipated lawsuit against the CNMI garment industry is not so much an assault upon one narrow industry. On the contrary, it represents a far more sinister act--a dastardly attack upon a small and fragile island territory: the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,...

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NMIRF infuses Imprest Fund

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