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...cost of what are called "extreme weather and marine" satellite phones from one of the two premier global providers, Iridium and GlobalStar, is $1,200 per unit. The cost of calls per minute is $5. Total cost for phones comes to $60,000 based on each team of pirates having two phones, and all of these probably get replaced each year due to damage. Assuming 100 minutes a month per phone and the total cost of airtime...
Weapons are one of the largest single costs that Somali pirates have. According to a book on AK-47s from Amazon, the guns cost about $345. That is a total of $173,000 because each of 500 men is armed. The price for 9MM pistols on the black market runs about $200, for a total of $100,000. Browning 50 caliber machine guns are $14,000 each, with at least one per raider and two per mother ship for a total cost of just over $1 million. Rocket propelled grenades which are used in most raids...
...different from others.” “I though you were going to surprise me now, Bob!” Smith replied. The library system was in a process of erosion even before the financial crisis, said Darnton, who worried that the cost-cutting measures of the next few years would compromise the importance of libraries on campus. But Darnton sought to stray a little from the mold of questions based on narrow interests, saying he was concerned for the library system on behalf of all of Harvard. “I think the library does represent...
...Within the next two weeks, Smith said he will appoint six working groups charged with proposing cost-reduction measures for their respective areas in FAS—including the three academic divisions, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the College...
...These are not working groups put there to try to squeeze more efficiency from the system,” said Smith, who stressed that the groups would seek to make academic programs more cost-efficient while maintaining the quality of education...