Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...synthetic sapphire used in Johnson & Johnson's braces is less expensive than the natural gem. Still, the Starfire brackets will add up to $500 to the average $2,500 cost of orthodontic treatment...
Lawrence Garfinkel, vice president for epidemiology and statistics at ACS, was impressed with the results. "Women can't do anything about most of the risk factors associated with breast cancer," he said. "When you add something to the list that you can do something about, those women should especially be concerned...
...close down the worst of the remaining money-loser thrifts would cost tons of money -- by one estimate, perhaps $23 billion. FSLIC resources have long been inadequate to the task. Hence there has been considerable pressure in Washington for the past year to add not merely $5 billion but $15 billion over five years to FSLIC capitalization. But there has been strong opposition from the thrift industry itself, mostly from the healthiest 60% of the institutions. Reason: the cash infusion would eventually have to be paid back by the thrifts, which are already paying about $3.5 billion a year...
...Party, which has ruled the country since 1948, was expected to win again, and perhaps even register a slight increase in its 116-seat majority in the 166-member House of Assembly. The opposition Progressive Federal Party, in league with the small New Republic Party, could not hope to add more than a handful of seats to its present 30. P.F.P. Leader Colin Eglin said he saw "the emergence among upwardly mobile city Afrikaners of a new spirit demanding new deals and moving away from the old shibboleths of Nationalist apartheid." That may be true, but such a spirit does...
Robinson says his stay will provide a welcome break from the routine of a city editor. "It's a wonderful experience to work at a totally different pace...to add to the portfolio of what you know," he said...