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Cautionary tales abound of lottery winners whose bad investments lead them to bankruptcy, but most of America's luckiest people seem to keep their feet on the ground. The fact that they are paid in 20 annual taxable installments helps. (Annual payments also mean a much lower outlay by the lotteries.) Most winners stay in the same neighborhood, keep old friends and continue to look at price tags...
...parliament, but the populace appears content to treat the council as a legitimate avenue of expression (especially since it is as eager as the Emir to restore the old order, and so is considering a plan that would give $70,000 to every Kuwaiti family -- a $10 billion outlay the Central Bank's governor Salem labels "totally insane...
...this year at 96.6 billion rubles ($171.9 billion at the official but meaningless exchange rate), about 35% of the national budget, most Western analysts say the figure masks as much as it reveals. For the past 20 years, the CIA has employed laborious computations to estimate the Soviet defense outlay. They have usually calculated it at 15% to 20% of the country's gross national product. Experts in Washington now put the real expenditure at about 30% of GNP. When Richard Nixon visited Moscow recently, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov used figures indicating that the cost is closer...
...many community centers shifted their focus to family counseling and treating drug abuse and alcoholism. Programs also came under attack from budget cutters. California's services, once held up as a model for the nation, are being slashed. The new state budget lops $73 million from a planned outlay of $520 million for the community-care system...
...Council's social committee is already committed to several ventures requiring large capital outlay this year. In April the council will pay $10,000 for a Steven Wright concert, in May another $25,000 for a Ziggy Marley concert...