Thatâs the message of a pie chart now circulating on the Internet. The pie chart is headlined, Look closely at this chart of federal spending.. It says spending on the military accounts for 57 percent of the federal dollar, with other categories ranging from 1 percent to 6 percent.
Ticket fixing. Ticket fixing is a practice in which a public official destroys or dismisses a pending traffic ticket as a favor to a friend or family member. For example, police officers in a number of jurisdictions have been charged with destroying pending tickets at the request of other officers. Judges have also been accused of ticket fixing. Some police officers consider it a professional courtesy extended to friends and relatives of police officers. However, the practice is unpopular with the general public, and is illegal in most jurisdictions.
ACCURACY OF FIGURES. Adjusting for ticket price inflation is not an exact science and should be used to give you a general idea of what a movie might have made if released in a different year, assuming it sold the same number of tickets.