Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietly building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
...Kenya government did indeed keep its promise, at a total cost of ?1,500, but nothing seemed to satisfy Macharia. Found unfit for one job, he huffily turned down another. A beer shop the government helped him to open flopped. Blaming all his troubles on the government, Macharia decided on revenge. In November he signed an affidavit for People's Convention Party Leader Tom Mboya charging that the Kenya government had paid...
...grants in six years without results went on. A year ago the International Monetary Fund told Siles that it would end its support if he did not close government-subsidized tin-mine commissaries where the coddled, politically powerful miners were buying meat, rice and other staples at less than cost-a typical rat hole for foreign funds. A few weeks ago the U.S., which sends Bolivia a bail-out allowance of $500,000 every fortnight, backed up the I.M.F. by demanding an end to commissary subsidies. Thus pressured, Siles announced that the commissaries had to go. The day the rioting...
...late now to change the rocket's instructions, which would control its course inexorably once it had left the pad. Each second of delay, Debus remarked, would cost an error of 17 miles at the distance of the moon. He studied the jeweled panels of lights. They had been green, red and amber. Now all were green...
...exhibit, bossed by Harold C. McClellan, president of Los Angeles' Old Colony Paint & Chemical Co., is sponsored by the Government at a cost of more than $3.6 million, is expected to attract 3½ million visitors, who will pay a few rubles each for admission. Nearly 170 U.S. firms from 19 states have already contributed products, including musical instruments, 10,000 books, office equipment, a "miracle" kitchen, and a model U.S. house split down the middle so that Russians can walk between the halves. Two features particularly aimed at improving Russian knowledge of the U.S.: seven movie screens simultaneously...