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Richard Brown commented on high up-front costs required to develop technological means of delivering these services, such as computer-based screening.
many purposes, but one of its primary functions is to control obligations up-front before the government commitment is made.
There's politics on both sides of the matter, says the Times : Korean politicians want up-front money to soften what are widely viewed in their country as the bailout's regulatory intrusions, while the Clinton administration has tried to make the U.S. contribution to the deal--estimated to be potentially $5 billion--more palatable by suggesting there's a chance it would never actually be needed.
1 The need for additional space for support systems ranges from no additional space needed to 2.5 acres typical for up-front reagent processing and 1 acre for dewatering when reagent processing and dewatering operations are selected as part of the FGD system design.
The tobacco/states talks broke up Wednesday, the WP reports, over the states' demands for an up-front payment of about $20 billion, twice the amount the companies offered in last year's negotiated settlement, left in limbo by the failure of the Congress to implement it.