That reduction should provide grounds for BP to hope that punitive damages will be relatively modest. However, actual damages could run into billions, even before fees. Less comforting is the $75m cap on liability for economic damages under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990. Regardless of what happens to efforts in Congress to raise this cap to $10 billion, this legislation may not constrain tort lawsuits under state or common law, argues Alex Tabarrok, an economist at George Mason University. “The point of the OPA was not to limit tort law but to supplement it.” Legal damages could thus be in addition to other compensation that is paid voluntarily to victims by BP and others, an amount that has been estimated at anything from $3 billion to $8 billion.
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Sometimes during examinations, my siblings and I had to stand before the severe-looking nuns and beg them to allow us to take the exams even though our school fees weren't paid up.
有时考试的时候，由于我们没有付清学费，我们三个不得不站在表情严厉的修女面前求他们允许我们参加考试。
What's worse, most families 'incomes in our country are below the average level. The high fees make the people save money for the children's education even before they are born.
更严重的是，许多家庭的收入低于平均水平，有些父母甚至在孩子出生之前就开始攒钱。
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