Word: costes
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Swamped. Chief target of farmer anger was still Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who for seven years fought the scandalous farm subsidy program by urging Congress to reduce Government acreage controls and price props. Unhappy result: the U.S. farm program will cost a record $6.6 billion in fiscal...
...save the endangered monuments, Egypt's Minister of Culture, Sarwat Okasha, appealed to the world's universities and foundations. Getting little response, Minister Okasha turned to UNESCO for assistance because the cost of preserving the treasures would be "exceptionally great." How great, the world discovered this week from the report of a UNESCO investigating mission, headed by U.S. Archaeologist Dr. John Otis Brew. Abu Simbel and Philae, says the UNESCO report, can be safeguarded by a system of dikes, levees and protective dams at a cost of $64 million. If any more of the 15 major temples...
...what could become one of the most important labor-management battles in recent years. Neither side will budge and, come a few months, the truckers of the nation will start to reap tremendous profits as the railroads grind to a stop. In the long run, however, the entire cost of the strike will be borne by the American tire cost of the strike will be borne by the American public--an all-too common occurrence these days...
...Will Cost Over $2 Million...
Whichever of the two sites is finally selected, the proposed Behavioral Sciences Building, housing both the Social Relations and Psychology Departments, will have a floor area of approximately 100,000 square feet. Depending on the degree to which specialized facilities are installed, the estimated cost is between $2 million and $2.5 million...