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The New York Times goes with the debate over the patient privacy rules suggested yesterday by President Clinton, while the Los Angeles Times leads with Toshiba's announcement of a $1 billion settlement in a class-action suit over its laptops, a story also fronted by the NYT .
Then came World War II, bringing with it an enormous boom for the state’s beleaguered economy, with the United States federal government spending $35 billion in California.
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Le Figaro of Paris led its front page Wednesday with an estimate that the storm will cost the French economy between 60 billion and 70 billion French francs, about 3 percent of the state budget.
Over the past 6 years, federal agencies have spent a reported $145 billion on information technology with generally disappointing mission-related results.