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...plaintiffs' lawyers at $700 million. R.J. Kopchak, 58, a commercial fisherman in Cordova for 32 years, says he has suffered about $660,000 in forgone income since the spill, as a result of lost sales and the devaluation of his herring-fishing permits. "I've struggled to make a dime, let alone a profit, and these guys are making billions of bucks," says Kopchak. He and many other fishermen say 11 of the past 13 herring seasons were ruined by damage from the spill. Exxon disputes local fishermen's assertion that the spill has done extraordinary environmental damage...
...without sacrificing such scientifically priceless-and fiscally prudent-programs as new space telescopes and the growing fleet of interplanetary probes flown mostly by the NASA-affiliated Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). When NASA's new, no-nonsense administrator, Michael Griffin, took over last April, he echoed that. Not ?one thin dime? would be cannibalized from the hard-science missions to pay for the manned ones, he promised. Now, it appears, there will be a lot of lost dimes indeed...
...favors. It is not your right to use the termbill money of your fellow students to fund a private party. If you and your suitemates would like to throw a party inviting only your 100 closest friends, you have the right to do so—on your own dime. As it stands, there is no shortage of demand to obtain grants from the the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) “party fund.” Troublingly, anecdotal reports of widespread abuse indicate that this might not be the best measure of their success. Hosts failing...
Furthermore, it is not such a bad thing that freshmen seeking to obtain condoms on the University’s dime are often forced to interact with a human being in UHS or Room 13 to get the goods. A person who is embarrassed to be observed obtaining condoms should think twice before doing the deed...
...story as co-written by Mick (Sympathy for the Devil) Jagger and The Matrix's mess-with-your-metaphysics Wachowski brothers: Judas Iscariot, vilified in the Gospels as Jesus' great betrayer, was not merely an Apostle--he was perhaps Christ's closest confidant. Technically speaking, he did drop a dime on Jesus. But there were extenuating circumstances, some having to do with the belief that the God of the Old Testament was not the ultimate God, that this world is not what it seems and ... well, for a full explanation, you'll just have to see the movie...