Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College dining halls or the board rate will rise to at least $630, Dean Bundy warned yesterday. Some increase in the present $590 rate seems inevitable, regardless of any innovations the Dining Hall Department introduces, but by means of "careful studies," the Administration hopes to minimize the cost...
...energetic climb has added $1.9 billion to the Administration's income estimate for fiscal 1960 (ending next June). But over the same span, the outgo estimate has also crept upward by $1.9 billion, reaching $78.9 billion. Biggest reason for the outgo increase: rising interest rates, upping the cost of carrying the national debt for the fiscal year from $8 billion to $9 billion. Net result of the higher income and outgo estimates: the budget still shows the skimpy surplus, about $100 million, that the President predicted back in January...
...polls telling them what they should like, especially that they liked bigger, chrome-decorated cars. Detroit guesses that the compacts will appeal particularly to people on tight budgets. But it is not certain, since consumers no longer buy cars to match their pocketbooks. Most buyers of the low-cost foreign cars and of the Rambler and Lark come from higher-income brackets...
...another year Cole labored over his baby. Not only did he design thousands of parts, but he had to get cost estimates for each one from hundreds of suppliers -without springing the secret. His sales strategy was to outflank corporate channels, sell the small car directly to G.M.'s hard-reigning president, Harlow Curtice. But sharp, inquiring "Red" Curtice was a tough man to sell. To do it, Cole would have to present him with a prototype car and an argument virtually without flaw-at a carefully selected time when the market was just beginning to ripen. Cole well...
...weeks of the campaign the Labour Party seems to have found some profitable issues, notably pensions and high rents. They have promised every pensioner $1.40 more a week and have made broad promises of educational and medical improvements. The estimated cost of these welfare pledges is estimated at one billion dollars the first year, which Labour plans to acquire without increasing taxes...