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many purposes, but one of its primary functions is to control obligations up-front before the government commitment is made.
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.
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.
Richard Brown commented on high up-front costs required to develop technological means of delivering these services, such as computer-based screening.
According to the Post lead, the FBI's willingness to let the NTSB (the government's accident investigation body) remain for the time being in charge of the EgyptAir investigation, rather than officially ratcheting it up into an up-front criminal probe, has a payoff: It placates the Egyptian authorities, who therefore have been more cooperative in sharing flight and personnel records with the Bureau, which outside the U.S. has no power to seize evidence.