He concludes, "With up to $20 million to spend on roster improvements and only one truly untouchable player (left winger Rick Nash) the Blue Jackets could get a Flyer-like facelift in the coming weeks".
B&Q, part of Britain's Kingfisher retailing group, estimates that one-tenth of China's 400m households have "western" levels of disposable income, with $1,000 or more a year to spend on home improvements.
In practice, how much effort each user will want to spend on such improvements will depend on the purpose of the prediction and the desired resolution.
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Under the scheme, households can use cheap loans to spend on energy-saving improvements, such as insulation and new boilers, with no upfront cost, and would then be repaid, with interest, through energy bills.
Seoul, Korea, for example, relies on a $2.5 billion Macquarie investment fund to spend on transportation and infrastructure improvements, while cities in India have sought market funding in the form of investment-grade municipal bonds for $302 billion in improvements over the next five years.
The MLR is the 80-85% of premiums that the new health care reform law requires insurance companies to spend on medical care, or improvements to the quality of care, as opposed to administration.
Councillors are being offered a straightforward (and attractive) bargain, with the promise of £1.5 billion of central-government money to be spent on improvements to the city's public-transport network plus £1.2 billion to be raised against the forecast £180m revenue from the congestion charge.
The recession was not entirely beneficial to the environment, the report notes, because many countries had less money to spend on enforcement of environmental standards or improvements to energy efficiency.
As for Westchester, the county is complaining that its four plants would need to spend $355 million to $573 million on improvements to meet the discharge targets, and that the price is too steep for taxpayers in the affected sewer districts.
