So while each dollar spent on grants to students reduces final tuition costs less than one for one, each dollar spent on subsidies to public institutions reduces tuition costs by more.

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They are also being used to raise awareness and funds for the Welcome Back Veterans initiative, to which MLB will donate one dollar from the sale of each cap.

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Hong Kong keeps its dollar stable by backing each dollar's worth of local money by one American dollar of reserves.

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From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person to the organizational hierarchy, except that one person will just happen to be a billion-dollar company that could buy and sell each and every one of you like you were office furniture.

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So for each dollar of corporate welfare that is cut, we save more than one dollar, either through less inflation, reduced interest expenses, increased future private sector spending (due to lower taxation), reduced government costs, or all of the above.

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As one of these businesses, your impulse is to concentrate all energies on squeezing the maximum dollar out of each holiday interaction.

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Managing thousands of details and multiple risks for each of the multimillion-dollar houses he builds, he spent years rushing around with "one foot off the ground 20 hours a day, running the same scenarios through my mind time and time again, and being unable to put it aside, " says Mr. Weissensee, 58, of Mill Valley, Calif.

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