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Incredibly, financial bailouts being approved in Washington now add up to $8.5 trillion, a figure beyond comprehension. ABC News commented: "In comparison, the total U.S. cost of World War II, adjusted for inflation, was $3.6 trillion. The bailout will cost more than the total combined costs in today's dollars of the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the entire historical budget of NASA, including the moon landing." Barry Rithotlz, author of Bailout Nation added: "No one really knows if any of this is going to work.
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Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani called Tuesday for a $30 billion "Marshall Plan" for Pakistan and Afghanistan over the next five years to fight al Qaeda, blunt anti-American sentiment and secure Pakistan from extremists bent on destabilizing its civilian government.
Mr. Haqqani, who plans to attend an international donors meeting for Pakistan in Tokyo next week, told editors and reporters of The Washington Times that the cost to the West of an aid program like the one provided to Europe after World War II would be negligible compared with that of rescuing failing banks and corporations.
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It's a privilege to stand before the future leaders of the United States Army. You have worked hard to get to this moment. You've survived the hardest Beast on record-the "best summer of your lives" in Buckistan-countless hours in the House of Pain. In 4 years, you've been transformed from "bean-heads" to "yuks" to "cows" and "Firsties." And today you will become proud officers of the greatest Army in the history of the world.
...In Europe, he launched the Marshall Plan, an unprecedented effort to help Germany and ...The Marshall Plan cost about 100 billion in today's dollars, and it helpe...
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... In Europe, he launched the Marshall Plan, an unprecedented effort to help Germany and ... The Marshall Plan cost about $100 billion in today's dollars, and it help...
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For her part, [Doris Marshall] hasn't received a single solicitation from a TXU competitor in the mail but has looked into other companies on her own. She is not impressed. "I'm skeptical about people I've never heard of and know nothing about," she says. "I know TXU and Reliant." That attitude was also reflected at a May 30 rally at a Reliant shareholder meeting organized by the community action group ACORN. Protesters there, while criticizing Reliant, Houston's incumbent utility, for "overcharging," said they didn't trust other companies, especially in a power emergency. "With the hurricane incident, you don't want to change companies," said Patricia Thompson, a Houston postal worker. She said that with a sister who depends on an oxygen respirator, "I can't take the chance" of switchi...
... That year, lawmakers approved a deregulation plan with bipartisan support. The new law, called the T... power users are still paying for these costs through a monthly charge on each bill. On January ...
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City Councilor David Marshall is a technocrat. For his five years in office, he has a list of accomplishments that rival those of his competitors.
He came up with the idea for Portland's first tax increment financing district involving the arts, which led to the city's Arts District.
...8, he notes how he plans to pay for each item, whether it's through TIFs, f...Those programs would cost a significant amount up front, as some opponents h...
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After Hurricane Katrina two years ago, Gerald Blessey, an attorney who is a former mayor of Biloxi, said massive government help similar to the Marshall Plan instituted to rebuild Europe after World War II was needed in order to assure the recovery of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Bridging gaps Other efforts include a program to bridge the gap between the ability of workers to pay and the cost of housing for citizens within 80% and 120% of median income.
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The four vertical protrusions that march down the 14th Street face of the new Marshall University Forensics Science Center certainly catch the eye as they were meant to. Someone compared them to the bars on a cell phone, said Edward Tucker, namesake and owner of Edward Tucker Architects in Huntington. The protrusions serve a far more utilitarian purpose. They hide exhaust vents that carry nasty gases away from the buildings laboratories. One of the challenges in designing the building was where to put all the ductwork, Tucker said. We decided to put the ductwork on the outside of the west wall, which is not the best side for sunlight, and to make that an architectural element, he said. We enclosed those with what I call saddlebags. For inn...