• That is, Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland seeks to calculate (and sometimes guess, though in an educated way, of course) how much of the UK's revenue is raised in Scotland, and how much is spent in Scotland.

    BBC: Balance of payments

  • What's maddening is how much Mayweather's recklessness outside the ring contrasts with his discipline inside it he is a sharp, conscientious, well-studied boxer, which is one reason he's never been beaten, and why a fight with Pacquiao so tantalizing.

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  • The habitat impact of catching monkfish is "acceptable, " says Laurel Bryant, director of external affairs at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service, which counts and regulates how much fish is caught in the U.S. and maintains its own extensive seafood-buying guide called FishWatch.

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  • The answer depends on the size of the gift, how much asset appreciation there is, and the donor's overall investment, estate-planning and giving goals, Mr. Teitell says.

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  • Meanwhile, it's unclear how much upside there is for the Knicks, who are the league's oldest team.

    WSJ: One-Dimensional Problems

  • The key question for Merck is how much of torcetrapib's toxicity was caused by the pill's accidental effect on aldosterone.

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  • However, it is still not clear how much of Yuganskneftegaz's tax liability is included in the price.

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  • The contrast between the beaming scientist and his falling stock begs the question that will determine Celera's fortune: How much money is the genome sequence really worth?

    FORBES: Celera's worth still up in the air

  • But perhaps the most jarring thing about Kidd's game is how much it contrasts from the stellar play he flashed three months ago.

    WSJ: N.Y. Knicks: Could Jason Kidd's Slump Be Permanent?

  • How much the ad targeting has helped Facebook's business is unclear, since the Menlo Park, Calif.

    WSJ: Buy Signal: Facebook Widens Data Targeting

  • James Glanz has an excellent piece in the Sunday New York Times and continuing today on how much power is consumed by data centers in the U.S. To provide fast response time, they operate near full capacity much of the time, and waste up to 90 percent of their energy consumption.

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  • Google Base is very new, so it's hard to judge how much time the company is spending on it.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • How much oil is already sullying the gulf, and thus how far the disaster's effects may yet spread, is a matter of dispute.

    ECONOMIST: Nerves are fraying a month after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

  • So -- and by the way, all of it is paid for, and not only is it deficit-neutral but the Congressional Budget Office, which is the bipartisan office that's the scorekeeper for how much things cost in Congress, says it's going to reduce our costs by a trillion dollars.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • At present, it is trying to sort through the economic data to figure out how much of the recent weakening in America's economy is real, rather than a statistical fluke.

    ECONOMIST: The Federal Reserve extends Operation Twist

  • For women who get the dreaded positive result, the next steps are determined by the type of tumor -- how big it is, how much it has spread, how fast it's growing -- as well as by the gestational age of the fetus.

    CNN: Pregnant with cancer

  • Using cross links within the foam's particle arrangement, regardless of how much the structure is compressed, it'll spring back to the predesigned shape.

    ENGADGET

  • The tensions that are rising to the surface come over what many perceive as an imbalance between how much is being asked of Britain's shrinking armed forces and the resources available to them over the coming years to achieve those aims.

    BBC: Caroline Wyatt: Political challenges of defence future

  • While Hispanics make up about one-third of U.S. Catholics, they account for nearly half of those under the age of 40, according to the Pew Research Center a telling indicator of how much the church's future is tied to Latinos.

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  • The national election is centering on the economy, a key component of which is federal powers: Just how much reach should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have over coal-fired electric generation.

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  • Users see a mapped-out rendering of their office showing the strength and location of various access points, who's using them, how much traffic is in the air, and if any unauthorized nodes have popped up.

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  • Now the question is how much Japan, one of the largest foreign buyers of U.S. government debt, will have to pull back from purchasing U.S. Treasury bonds, and how the Fed will offset that.

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  • The Federal Emergency Management Agency will decide where it is safe to rebuild once the government decides how much it will pay to improve the levees, which is why yesterday's news from Donald Powell, of the Bush Administration, was followed so closely.

    NPR: Cost of Levee Repairs Rises in New Orleans

  • Brown's government is limited in how much it can stimulate the economy: Prior to the global financial crisis, Britain's private sector and public sector already experienced growth that was above the norms of the Group of Seven industrialized countries, and unemployment looked unaturally low at 3.6% in 2000.

    FORBES: Market Scan

  • The commission's plan is for a cap on how much individuals must fork out before the state starts paying the bills.

    BBC: Could care of the elderly haunt the Conservatives?

  • The thing about Mourinho and Parames is that it's unclear just how much traction their words have in the realm of public opinion.

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  • "We looked to see how much wine we actually ship and how quickly it's consumed and what the environmental cost is of getting the wine all over the world, " says Egan.

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  • Given the world of Lockhart Gardner and how much it's struggling, David Lee is a commodity and will have a lot of confrontations with the Nathan Lane character.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • An arcane industry statistic known as "fab utilization, " which measures how much of the world's chip manufacturing capacity is being used, had reached only 65.9% by the end of 2001, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

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