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...aged three or older - regardless of whether their parents are able to pay for the classes. The AFT plan would charge parents on a sliding scale, asking wealthier parents to spend a bit more in order to finance part of another, needier child?s tuition. Feldman puts the estimated tab of such a program at $41 billion, the bulk of which would continue to be bankrolled by state and federal funds...
...California says Houston owes them $8.9 billion in price-gouging of its utilities - which it had to bail out. Houston says California should come back either never or when the utilities have settled their tab with the power companies, somewhere around $4.5 billion. Both sides use different math, different records, different allegations that nobody can seem to prove one way or the other. The designated referee, veteran federal mediator (and FERC chief judge) Curtis L. Wagner, wasn't getting paid to find and declare the truth - he was just mediating a private negotiation, and it was a doozy...
BUDGET BLOWOUT The tab for treating and preventing HIV/AIDS in the world's poorest countries could run as high as $9.2 billion a year, according to the latest U.N. figures. Current expenditure? About $1.8 billion. At least $4 billion is needed in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 20% of the adult population is infected...
...owner Chris Breed, who wants to double the number of fourposter beds because of the enthusiastic response. "Customers kick back, have a nice meal and become very intimate with each other." The seductive dining usually doesn't go beyond nuzzling and kissing. But for a $300 to $500 tab (in contrast to the usual "bed menu" of $75), you can stretch out with your dinner date all night long. Or at least until closing time...
...police officer and two dancers named "Diva" and "Frederique." Each is charged with enriching a criminal enterprise run by Kaplan. He, in turn, according to prosecutors, paid the Mafia's Gambino family for protection. Charges include credit card fraud, in which club employees are accused of padding the drink tab by selling $375 bottles of champagne, graciously pouring glasses for customers and entertainers, then surreptitiously dumping the rest into the carpet and pushing customers to buy more. The women sometimes would allow drunken customers to run up tabs exceeding $10,000. Prostitution is also alleged, with the club paying women...