NRCC Makes Large Independent Expenditures
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Making use of the rule that allows party committees to make independent expenditures*, the National Republican Congressional Committee reported several payments over $100,000 on Friday, including a payment of $118,882 for "media placement" in opposition to Brad Ellsworth's campaign in Indiana's 8th District, a payment of $102,996 for "issue ad placement" in opposition to Ron Klein in Florida's 22nd District, a payment of $132,136 for "issue ad placement" in opposition to Phil Kellam in Virginia's 2nd, a payment of $131,976 for "issue ad placement" in opposition to Friends of Baron Hill in Indiana's 9th, and a payment of $111,751 for "issue ad placement" in opposition to Leonard L. Boswell in Iowa's 3rd.
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The spate of Âaward calculations,Â as the rebuilding program calls them, represents a big increase from early last month, when fewer than 2,000 families had been told how much they were eligible to receive.
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Hitachi Ltd. (6501.T) said on Friday U.S.  merchant power company NRG Energy Inc.  is set to pick  Hitachi and General Electric Co.  to build nuclear power  facilities for $5.2 billion, in what would be Hitachi's first  major overseas nuclear power project.
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Oct. 4, 2004 (Dayton Daily News) Federal regulators have taken the nation&#39;s largest funder of home mortgage loans to task. The charge?
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 8--With work finally moving forward on Pueblo's chemical demilitarization program, $46.2 million in contracts have been awarded this year through the end of November, much of it to local firms.
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The costs involved in running a data center now represent a large chunk of IT's total budget.
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Spending on research will more than double this year, with a growing amount coming from the private sector.
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A major donor to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will benefit from $4 million in state financing for a road project providing access to a 6,000-acre real estate project the donor's company is developing.
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Staying healthy is a costly business in the United States, particularly in the Northeast, government statistics show.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--The cost of buying land to create parks, protect drinking water and preserve open space has increased nearly 300 percent in 10 years, say groups seeking additional state spending on land and water conservation.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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An industry giant is inspired to spend billions on its own shares.
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Since winter has finally arrived in earnest, Greater Boston residents on tight budgets once again have to contend with high heating costs . That's where KeySpan Foundation , the nonprofit arm of KeySpan Corp. , the largest distributor of natural gas in the Northeast, comes in.
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As the race for control of Congress turns toward its final sprint to Election Day, independent organizations with ideological or commercial stakes in the outcome are pouring record amounts of money into the closest contests -- in some cases eclipsing the spending of the candidates themselves.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--Both a state task force last year and the conservation group Environmental Defense this week have drawn similar conclusions about North Carolina's privately owned forests.
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Regional government Metro has put together an oversight committee for its Natural Areas program, an initiative that pays for land acquisition and capital improvement projects to protect water quality and fish and wildlife habitat, trails, and wildlife corridors.
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The proposed sale of Greater Southeast Community Hospital could cost the District government up to $87 million in public money, roughly $60 million more than initially thought, according to an initial review by aides to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D).