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...history. A partial analysis of claims finds that more than 70,000 women likely would be eligible to get money in the first wave of payments. Women who expected payments of $1.4 million each would receive as little as $70,000, while low-end awards of $105,000 could shrink to about $5,000. Knowles said the talks must produce a new deal within a few weeks or "we're going to call...
...some residents fear that forcing employeesto live in the city will only shrink the pool oftalented minorities from which to draw...
...Scaling back to such a force would permit the Army to cut its 10 divisions to six and the Marines its three divisions to two, according to some defense experts. Air Force fighters could fall from nearly 1,000 to 400, and the Navy's carrier fleet could shrink from 12 to 10. Lawrence Korb, a top Pentagon official during the Reagan years, agrees with McPeak's estimate that scaling back to a force for "one war plus deterrence" could save about $50 billion annually, or about 20% of the defense budget...
...perfect copies of expensive software programs. The high cost of software comes from the years spent inventing it, not from the plastic and paper on which it is distributed. The full-service operation cracked last week, for instance, copied the disks, tagged them with holograms, and packaged them in shrink-wrapped boxes that included facsimiles of user's guides. Cost to the pirates: roughly $6 a unit. But each box would sell for as much as $200 to an unwitting-or unscrupulous-dealer...
...once that overworked clicha might be true. Consider two measures of how many decades of precedent the Republicans intend to reverse. The Senate G.O.P. wants to zero out the Department of Commerce; Kasich's House troops would also wipe out the Departments of Education and Energy. Either move would shrink the number of Cabinet departments for the first time in 48 years...