Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return for the loyalty he demands, Old Pro Halleck is especially careful to care for his walking wounded. When Indiana's William Bray gave in to Halleck and voted to sustain the Rural Electrification Administration veto, he feared that it would cost him his career. After the vote he told Halleck he was finished-there were just too many REA supporters in his district. Halleck got on the telephone, called Republican leaders in Bray's district (Martinsville), told them to rally behind the worried Congressman...
...right flank the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, although badly scattered in the airdrop, outfought three German divisions, suffering 2,500 casualties. Shielded by this U.S. airborne success, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division swept ashore soon after the first light on Utah Beach, swamped the defenses at a cost of only 197 casualties. It was D-Day's first major breakthrough...
...Commit addicts to the special hospitals for at least two months for medical (including psychiatric) treatment, vocational training, and rehabilitation. ¶ Keep discharged victims visiting the hospital's out-patient clinic for continued psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation; prescribe maintenance doses of narcotics at cost† on a tapering-off schedule for addicts who revert to the drugs; prescribe minimum maintenance doses for incurables...
...There are now only three hospitals for addicts in the U.S.: two federal, at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, and one run by New York City for victims under 21. †Main reason most addicts turn to crime is that illicit drugs cost several hundred times the legal price, and the "habit" may set them back $500 a week...
...alike is the hefty "load" charge, or commission, usually 71% to 81% (compared with the 1% commission for round-lot purchases on the New York Stock Exchange). Many a customer howls when told of it. But the funds have a quick rejoinder: they argue that the charge includes the cost of selling out as well as buying, is the price of broad diversification and professional management. If an investor with $4,200 (the average size of a mutual fund holding) tried to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, claim the funds, he would easily...