Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changeover poses new problems. Despite plenty of warnings, some Frenchmen are sure to write checks after July 15, the changeover day, without marking N.F. (New Francs) in front of the figures. Shopkeepers may try to raise prices under the guise of rounding off the price of an article that cost 450 old francs to a simple five francs in the new currency. To prevent this, the government for a time is requiring all price tags to bear both old and new prices. Workers accustomed to receive 40,000 francs a month may grumble at only 400 -until they discover...
...Previously secret fiscal details, produced after an ultimatum from the Commons, showed that the CBC made a profit on only 17 of 102 shows produced during a typical March week. Largest subsidy-wherein only $9,678 of the total cost of $30,132 was paid by sponsors-went to a Canadian version of the longtime U.S. radio and TV Hit Parade show...
...calls us into his Church to accept the cost and joy of discipleship, to be his servants in the service of men, to proclaim the Gospel to all the world and resist the powers of evil, to share in Christ's baptism and eat at his table, to join him in his passion and victory...
...steel once a strike was over. Steelmen also counted on the fact that U.S. steelworkers, already the highest paid of the Big Three unions, are aware that a wage-and-price boost might bring more inflation to nullify a pay rise, give a boost to foreign competition, and eventually cost jobs in the mills. The most remarkable point of a new Gallup poll out this week is not that 51% of those polled said that steelworkers should get no pay raise, but that 40% of the families of union members felt the same way. For all these reasons...
...head of Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and 232,000 employees, he presents his reasons for crying "halt" as if he were preparing a legal brief. Says he: "The results of collective bargaining between the companies and the steelworkers' union have been characterized by unsustainable cost increases, major strikes and government intervention. It is time to raise the question as to whether nationwide wage policies, industry-wide strike power, the ability to shut down industries and bring economic America to its knees are necessary or right...