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...ideal world, Harvard would have already picked up the tab for all the improvements that would so greatly improve student life. But I know that the students of Harvard are willing and able to work towards our goals, even without the support of the administration...
...paid for the Florida recounts? A:For the most part, local taxpayers are picking up the tab. In some counties, ballot counters are government employees who are racking up overtime pay, while others are temporary workers paid about $7.50 an hour. The counties also pitch in for counters' lunches and dinners, at a cost Broward County officials estimate at $1,450 a day. Some speculate the recounts could cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time it's all over. And let's not forget the attorneys! Lawyers who have been retained by local government officials are also...
...list. Microsoft, meanwhile, has launched its new MSN Explorer Web browser with the warm-and-fuzzy icons and labels AOL made famous. Explorer is free and works with any Web connection, but Microsoft wouldn't mind if you signed up at $21.95 a month for MSN Internet access. Same tab...
...Willy saved him. The 1993 Warner Bros. movie was a hit and was followed by an international public outcry, led chiefly by children, when it turned out that Willy in real life was Keiko, a sick and far from free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with contributions from Warner Bros...
...credit is hugely popular in Silicon Valley and among biotechnology and large pharmaceuticals companies. R. and D. is their lifeblood. Such companies depend on a constant flow of new drugs and gadgets. But is it right that they slough off onto taxpayers part of their R.-and-D. tab? It seems a difficult argument to support, given how much money is to be made once a new drug or technology reaches the marketplace...