Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impatient to wait for private enterprise to work its measured miracles, Menderes concurrently embarked on an immense government development program. Without much regard for cost, he opened new coal mines, expanded Turkey's single steel complex, constructed a dozen beet-sugar plants, started work on six huge new dams and threw up 1,250 miles of power lines-nearly seven times as many as there were in all Turkey in 1950. Above all, he concentrated on improving the lot of the peasants. He boosted crop subsidies, imported (with U.S. aid) 40,000 tractors, and between 1950 and 1956 increased...
...operating almost like separate countries. Djakarta customs officers inspect the luggage of Sumatra-bound passengers as if they were flying to a hostile country. In contrast to Djakarta, Colonel Simbolon's Padang was remarkably peaceful, secure, and spotlessly clean. It was also much healthier economically. Padang's cost-of-living index has risen 77 points in the last five years against 144 for Djakarta; bartering its rubber with Singapore produces an estimated $1,500,000 a month in profits. When Djakarta seized eight South Sumatran ships in an effort to halt the barter trade, the rebels quickly...
...rioters by abolishing the Security Police, arresting 196 of its chief agents. The junta promised to try them on charges of torturing or ill-treating prisoners, with special attention to a police inspector-general accused of presiding over electric shock and beating sessions in a formal dinner jacket. Cost of freedom in the week's casualties: 300 killed, more than 1,000 wounded...
...cost of this effort will be high, but the stakes are even higher. Deuterium, the fuel of thermonuclear power plants, can be extracted fairly easily from any kind of water, and there is enough in five gallons of water to yield as much energy as ten tons of coal. All nations with the wit to handle the difficult thermonuclear technology will have access to virtually unlimited energy...
...able to take care of their best customers. Dallas banks have more borrowers than there is money to lend. Says President Benjamin Wooten of Dallas' First National Bank: "We're not going to drop our prime rate. Supply and demand should be the governing factors in the cost of money...