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And that's paltry besides the WP 's 4,000-word front-page effort on the same subject, to which the paper saw fit to assign 14 staffers.
DirecPC is a bad choice for those who want to transmit data, because it uplinks on conventional phone lines at a paltry 28,800 bits per second.
They give me a paltry allowance while they live high on the hog with cruises, flying trips, etc., leaving me home to feed the cats and empty the litter pans.
In fact, it gets even more confusing: Al Kamen of the WP points out that none of the Republicans pushing for easing inheritance taxes and capital gains cuts is a millionaire (if you don't count their homes), while the Democrats who had opposed these ideas include "Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin (worth as much as $90 million), White House Chief of Staff Erskine B. Bowles (who could be worth as much as $60 million), and Office of Management and Budget Director Franklin D. Raines (who might top out at a paltry $35 million)."
When I saw the paltry descriptions of the Maxwell Street market, I felt a small rush-I had out-traveled the travel experts.