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...Gekas' support for nafta. Democrats, having some fun with Gekas' 1998 sponsorship of a measure allowing bankrupt property owners in five states, including Texas, to shield the full value of their homes from creditors, produced a flyer that features a shot of former Enron ceoKen Lay, who owns a multimillion-dollar Houston penthouse...
...airlines are trimming their schedules and moving to smaller fleets, odds are that you're going to have even less legroom than before. Many observers think the prolonged slump could force American, its denials notwithstanding, to reconfigure its coach seats, the roomiest in the industry after a two-year, multimillion-dollar redesign...
...technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
Determined to prove he was right, Kok rented a warehouse in the gray industrial town of Eindhoven and set about making CDs without the customary multimillion-dollar expense for "clean rooms" to keep stray dust motes and hairs from marring the discs. In place of these rooms Kok built a pickup-truck-size "in line" machine that handled all the stages of production in one clean, compact, enclosed location--thus slicing the cost of producing a CD to 18[cents], from the standard...
...Burgher, Halliburton's vice president for investor relations, points out that, even with the asbestos claims, an Austrian company paid nearly $600 million for Harbison-Walker in 1999. Says Burgher: "Nobody foresaw this." Lawyers for asbestos victims say Cheney and Halliburton should have known better. "Everyone knew these were multimillion-dollar cases," said Glen Morgan, a leading asbestos-claims lawyer based in Beaumont, Texas. Whatever Cheney knew, he's not saying. His office refers all questions back to Halliburton. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas and James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Michael Weisskopf/Washington