Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luxury apartment after he had tossed his wife and infant into the street, and the Moscow City Economic Council continued to shower him with bonuses. Edouard loved the high life. "I've tried everything, achieved everything, seen everything," he boasted. "I've even eaten salads that cost 87 rubles and 50 kopeks...
Paper Palaces. When one of the "active" members of the tai Ian kun (The Club of the Most Critical Moment) is dying, a roast-pig dinner is laid before him, and Taoist priests chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40? a 1,000 but are thought to be worth 1,000 silver dollars in paradise. The average traveler to the next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral...
...President Hernan Siles Zuazo has been backing a stern anti-inflation program with everything from hunger strikes to threats to resign, and there are hopeful signs of recovery. Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner, reinaugurated last week, has stabilized the currency, balanced the budget and held the rise in cost of living to a low (for Paraguay) 1% per month. And Chile's President Carlos Ibanez has sacrificed his personal popularity to back tough economic reforms, made even tougher by a deep slump in the world price of copper, the country's main export...
...Private hospitals are well-staffed and equipped, but they cost too much, according to a girl medical student. Free hospitals give poor service and have only mediocre equipment...
...went up. The interior pieces were returned and artisans began a careful job of restoration. Damaged pieces were repaired, regilded where necessary, and, to match the old tints, rubbed by hand until the dull undercoating peeked artistically through. Then they were set into place again, using the 1830 numbers. Cost: more than...