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...government has already tried other means to bolster the club. When football gambling was legalized last year, the HKJC was awarded the exclusive right to run betting pools, producing $2.1 billion in new income. Meanwhile, Wong has cut costs by reducing staff to levels not seen since the early 1990s and by slashing senior managers' pay, including his own, by 10%. Money is being invested in upgraded facilities, such as the construction of a $51 million parade ring with a retractable roof, which opened in November, and a giant outdoor TV screen at the Sha Tin track. And the racing...
Friday’s report recognized that economic instability over the last few years has heightened pressures on municipal and Massachusetts budgets. But “despite its tax-exempt status, Harvard helps in several ways to bolster state and local government finances,” the report said...
...spectacle of U.S. troops arresting leading Sunni clerics and politicians sympathetic to the insurgency in Baghdad, or the widely televised image of a Marine apparently shooting dead an unarmed insurgent inside a mosque. Nor will the images of death and destruction that emerge from the ruined city help bolster the government?s case, even though the U.S. plans to quickly spend $100 million on rebuilding the city, in the hope of winning over Fallujah residents...
...troops could be pondering questions like that for years. The Pentagon is planning to maintain in Iraq a force of the current size--138,000--for the next two years. And the top brass will probably boost the numbers to almost 160,000 for the next three months to bolster security for Iraq's elections. The Army's top officer conceded last week that the current 12-month tours in Iraq cannot be scaled back to six or nine months, as the White House wanted. The long deployments are pinching recruitment and retention, especially as veterans contemplate returning to Iraq...
...fact, the University devoted nearly 85 percent of its money—$440,000—to bolster lobbying efforts at Harvard’s Office of Federal Relations, according to the Chronicle...