Besides the cost to Merrill of moving to Ground Zero, there are a lot of other "ifs" to factor in. There's no telling how Merrill's inevitable request for subsidies beyond those already available to it if it moves to the WTC site will play at City Hall and in Albany.
Indeed, rather than answering any cry for freedom, Brussels bureaucrats will be busy fending off more mundane requests for subsidies and aid.
Ranking members of transportation committees in both legislative houses today welcomed the fare proposal, which they said should mute some of the agency's requests for subsidies.
"This government will be very loth to consider requests for subsidies, we will be very loth to do for businesses in trouble the sorts of things they should be doing for themselves," he warned.
So far the central bank has refused requests for subsidies to help with private-sector interest bills, but some corporate leaders have warned that their companies may go bust without state support.
"This government will be very loath to consider requests for subsidies," he added.
George R. Zoffinger, the agency's president, called it a request for a $25 million subsidy, one that he and Gov. James E. McGreevey considered for most of the day but rejected.
The Whitman administration, which has been negotiating with professional racing over the past year to bring a Nascar speedway to New Jersey, bowed out of the project recently, saying that Nascar's request for a $200 million subsidy was too high.
In the late 1960s, the province of Groningen requested the national government for subsidy to open a new museum in Bellingwolde.
Commitment by industries and universities means that 50% of this budget has already been found, whilst the subsidy request for the second 50% will be decided upon in the course of this year.
With the encouragement of his Protestant advisers, James summoned the English Parliament in 1624 so that he could request subsidies for a war.
