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In big cities, New Year's Eve rates of upwards of $100 an hour are common.
Big-game fishing expeditions cost upwards of 25,000 esc.
A gruesome refiguring of the Central American toll for Hurricane Mitch--now revised to be upwards of 7,000 deaths--leads at USA Today , the Los Angeles Times , and the New York Times . The Washington Post leads with the news that the Washington D.C. financial control board will re-delegate most of the local government's executive powers--stripped from Marion Barry--back to the new mayor chosen today.
By comparison, tax records show the director of the program at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society earned upwards of $80,000 during that time.
While this would bias estimates based on more recent pollution levels upwards, it also would imply a truly long-term chronic effect of pollution.