Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect, Ambassador Cabot asked the critics of the U.S. to inform themselves and reconsider. "Brazil could adopt a new political orientation," warned Cabot, "only at the cost of endangering her own security as well as that of the U.S." Brazil's press threw open its columns, gave Cabot's blunt talk big and generally favorable play...
...unsullied forehead. The back of the skull is intact; there are no brains on the rug. In some of these spruced-up shooting matches, the Eyes carry .38s, each with a short sleeve welded inside the barrel so that real bullets cannot be fired. The blanks the pistols accommodate cost only a dime apiece. For scenes when the audience actually sees a man shot down, "blood capsules" fired from compressed air guns splatter against Plexiglas plates hidden beneath the victim's clothing. There are special bullets filled with flaked aluminum to simulate shattering glass; others are packed with...
...cost to Kao is about $700 a year. "This is really very little," he says. "In fact, it cost me nothing. I teach a course at U.C.L.A. one night a week, and my income from that is enough to cover the boy's education." Kao finds it strange that this should interest anyone. "Really, I do not understand why anyone should question why someone helps someone else. If you are capable, you help. That...
...that net feed production is up 5%. On corn alone, Benson faces having to buy up to $672 million worth of this year's corn, on top of an estimated $1.8 billion worth of previous years' corn.* Meanwhile, storage, transportation and interest on earlier corn surpluses are costing $1,000,000 a day, more than twice the cost of maintaining the U.S. courts and Congress. Total added outlay for this year's corn charged to the U.S. taxpayer this year: around $1 billion...
...practically nothing to do with beer, but thousands of readers blitzed Blitz with pleas for trees, gave the company a word-of-mouth circulation far beyond the cost of the ad. They pushed California's Paul Masson brandy by poking fun at bourbon ("Kentucky is a great place for breeding horses") and vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell it, why bother?''), helped their client boost champagne and brandy sales 46% in two years...