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Old 05-08-2003, 05:12 PM
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I am talking increases in a budget. Do I want to say the areas with the biggest increase were staffing and technology or do I want largest?

The sentence as phrased sucks, but you get the picture.

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Old 05-08-2003, 05:26 PM
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Doh. Thank you. This budget is frying my brain.

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