Word: multimillions
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...which has been investigating the finances of Speaker Newt Gingrich, proposed altering the chamber's rules to bring book royalties under the $20,040-a-year limit on members' outside income. The G.O.P. leadership wants the change vetted in hearings, which will give Gingrich more time to collect possible multimillion-dollar revenues from his 1995 book To Renew America...
Perhaps the best barometers of any proposed policy change are its supporters. It's no small wonder that Steve Forbes has made the flat tax his issue of choice, with a multimillion dollar income from Forbes Inc. and his family's huge investments, Forbes would see his own tax rate cut by more than half--a yearly savings of millions, perhaps tens of millions, of dollars...
...families such as the Enoses who hit bottom next year or seven years from now, Gramercy Place may not be there. It is a program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, which, like many large private charities, makes up a major portion of its multimillion-dollar budget from government grants for everything from special education to alcohol treatment to emergency housing. Much of this money could disappear because of proposed federal budget cuts. Sharon Demeter, who runs the shelter, tries to imagine what she would cut first if the money were to dry up. First the education...
...Depositions in the Goldman suit were to have started this week but were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail time but could result in multimillion-dollar damage judgments. Explains Professor Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: "Most criminal defendants, unlike O.J. Simpson, do not have the kind of assets that would be worth pursuing...
...Simpson is set free, it will mean either that he is guilty but had a good enough defense to beat the rap or that he is innocent and might have been sentenced to life in prison were it not for a multimillion-dollar legal defense. Once they have been indicted and put on trial, people with limited financial resources stand a good chance of being convicted, even if innocent. Just as the winner of a formal debate is the better debater and is not necessarily the one whose position represents the truth, it seems that American justice depends less...