By 2017, the total price tag for the state-ordered Guard deployment and other border-related Texas Military Forces expenses was nearly $63 million.
Hayman, who eventually left the force over expense claims, fought him to a close draw.
With no new procurement initiative on the horizon, future defence budgets will consist largely of the cost of earlier arms purchases, military pay and pensions and the armed forces' operating expenses.
Simmering over a federal law that forces huge expenses on states and local districts, which complain of insufficient federal contributions, districts have fought to rein in costs through the courts, with some success.
Last month, 3Com announced its intention to save $250 million a year by sharply reducing spending on work force, travel expenses, production costs and plant management.
Doubling the sales force increases expenses and could dilute profits.
Younes is impressed with Carlos Ghosn, the CEO who restructured the company by reducing the work force, cutting expenses and increasing output.
The scene is discomfiting, not only because it feels a bit heavy-handed, but also for the way it taps into a long-standing fear among non-Jews: that all Jews understand each other on some primal level, and are inclined to join forces at the expense of everyone else. "Imagining Madoff" is essentially an extended game of seduction between the two men.
It will shrink our air forces at increased expense, rot their ability to prevail in the air and support our ground forces, and will needlessly spill the blood of far too many of our pilots.
But community opposition and expense forced the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to settle on the compromise version that opened yesterday.
