Word: cost
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bedroom East Side Manhattan apartment that cost $50,000 four years ago now goes for $225,000. A modest brownstone in Brooklyn costs $130,000. Fifty-year-old houses in Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighborhood of wood-frame bungalows have doubled from $30,000 in 1976 to $60,000. A one-bedroom condo in Boston's scruffy South End costs up to $60,000. Says Ann Wallace, 31, who was looking to buy in the supposedly inexpensive area of south-central Los Angeles: "What we figured would sell for $40,000 is selling for $60,000. What...
...insists too that the "No. 1 priority demand" is to adopt a cost of living escalator for union pensioners. Fraser intends to push for a four-day work week, though he will probably have to battle for a few more days off with pay (auto workers can now take 39.5 of them a year...
Next the ACTWU turned its ire on the New York Life Insurance Co. by announcing that it would run its own candidates for the board against Finley and New York Life's chairman R. Manning Brown Jr. A contested election would have cost the insurance firm as much as $6 million to mail ballots to its policyholders, and New York Life decided that it was not worth the fight. Stevens' Finley was again knocked off a board-this time New York Life's-and he was furious. Meanwhile, Brown, who had earlier vowed not to give...
...subsidiary landed a contract in Algeria to build a natural gas treatment plant. The subsidiary listed a cost of $400,000 paid to Rhasid Zeghar, a former senior military officer, for consulting services, which the SEC says consisted of meeting with ISC representatives for four days. In order to win a $5.2 million contract to build a grain storage facility in Nicaragua, other subsidiaries paid $415,538 to companies owned or controlled by Dictator Anastasio Somoza and his wife...
...Elephant Man. Winner of both the New York Drama Critics Circle and Tony awards, this drama about a man (Philip Anglim) grotesque in shape but al most saintly in spirit is the kind of the atrical experience that opens a window on the high cost, strange mystery and in effable blessing of human life...