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...have averaged $17 billion. They'll be lower this year because commodity prices are so high. But owners of eligible farmland will still get direct payments regardless of how much their farms earn or whether their farms are still farmed. And even though crop-insurance subsidies have increased nearly tenfold, farmers will still receive disaster aid if things go badly, no matter how often that happens. More than 21,000 farmers have cashed at least 11 disaster checks each in the past 21 years, at a cost of $2.5 billion...
...Even with the recent switch to Intel processors (the “brain” of the computer for the less technically inclined), Macs lag far behind their Windows or Linux counterparts in terms of simple power. Standardized computer graphics tests have shown that the Mac Pro is outperformed tenfold by equivalently priced Windows machines...
...diverted flights. We're talking 136,000 flights to look at." Castelveter admitted that with new reporting procedures, the BTS data on flight delays would increase. But he stressed the importance of keeping it all in perspective. "Even if the numbers [of reported delays] double, quadruple or increase tenfold, relative to the 7.2 million departures each year in the United States, the numbers would still be a decimal," he says. But that decimal represents a lot of unhappy airline travelers...
...little part of me wanted never to return—it was the first month of school, after all, and nobody would remember if I never came back. But a larger part of me wanted to prove my editors wrong. So I applied myself, and the Crimson rewarded me tenfold...
Back at Harvard, the number of female tenured faculty has increased tenfold in the past 25 years, an accomplishment that Budson attributes to the success of pioneers such as Graham...