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...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 2 June 1917 Dear friend Zangger, Your last letter makes me worry anew because I see that the upkeep of my sick family has acquired a ruinous quality. My net income (after deduction of taxes, etc.) has been reduced to 13,000 marks (this case has now in fact come to pass). From that I need for myself, in order to make at least an appearance of maintaining the kind of lifestyle rightfully expected of me, 5,000 marks. If I don't want to save up a single penny, what's left is 8,000 marks...
...changed. "There are track sections that are ready to be replaced, but we haven't been able to do it because there is not enough material," says Diego Trigo, a machinist and member of the Sindicato Ferroviario (Railroad Trade Union) and member of Valencia Railways' Safety Committee. "Regarding upkeep and maintenance, there is definitely a considerable lack of prevision." Other views are more drastic: "We warned the company this was going to happen," said Antonio Ayala, a machinist with 25 years of experience guiding trains...
...particular an annual financial report launched at a press conference and published on the Web. Last year the monarchy spent $64 million of public money (2.3% less than the previous year, adjusted for inflation) to fund its activities on behalf of the state, such as royal visits, the upkeep of palaces and official entertainment - the cost, as the palace is now media-savvy enough to stress, of a loaf of bread per citizen. Alan Reid, the former chief operating officer of the accounting and consulting firm KPMG who now serves as keeper of the privy purse, says the goal...
...make the stadium more useful than just five days a year.”The new turf, lights, and bubble—which would go up after Thanksgiving and remain until spring—would drastically increase the stadium’s daily and seasonal use, while minimizing the upkeep required by a traditional grass field, say athletic officials.Work on the stadium would begin next month and be completed in time for the fall 2006 football season, Scalise says.“Right now it’s a ‘go’” for this...
...value, the results of which have been sent to the Weston authorities, according to Cook. As for the use the money would be put to, he said that proceeds from the sale would probably go into the Arboretum’s endowment, to be used for future projects and upkeep. McCahan said that there was potential that some of the land could be used for a school or other municipal purpose. In addition, if they need to pay back a bond taken out to acquire the property, “we may have to do limited development?...