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...yourself, and many outdoor enthusiasts travel with insurance specifically to offset costs should they need to be rescued. In the U.S., whether you have to pay depends on where exactly you are when you get into trouble. In any of the national parks, the government picks up the tab for your rescue. The National Park Service spends nearly $5 million annually on search and rescue (SAR) missions and that doesn't include the cost of hundreds of thousands of man hours that go into these searches. Yet unless rescuees violated a park rule - like trespassing into a protected archeological site...
...back into marketing, the economy had tanked, and he says he has been searching "madly" for work these past few months as his savings and unemployment benefits are running out. Even though his wife is still working full-time, their $25,000 yearly contribution to Charles' tuition tab was starting to seem prohibitive. "The thing that was literally keeping me awake at night was having a conversation with my son that, 'You know, Charlie, you're going to have to withdraw from Grinnell,'" Frantz says. In February, he called the school to ask for more help. No definite word...
...cover its claims and not bring down the world banking system with it. But some of that money appears to be financing damage control. Just how much, is the kind of question that publicly financed bodies are obligated to answer. When he was asked for AIG's p.r. tab, Ashooh gave a stock corporate response: "Contracts are proprietary...
...Gates has been saying for months that the time has come for a "strategic reshaping" of the way the U.S. military is spending $600 billion a year - a tab that doesn't even include the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now he's going public with the 2010 budget proposal he drafted in secret before formally sending it to the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. It's a ploy designed to build momentum for Gates' plan before it can be sabotaged by defense contractors and lawmakers (often from districts that benefit from building...
...Congress debates health-care reform, American families are already picking up the tab for universal health coverage. That's the finding of a new report released March 24 by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington-based liberal think tank...