Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Costlier Handouts? The vote may, as Benson devoutly hopes, provide a long-range step-down of subsidized prices toward market prices, may help trim the monstrous program that inflated USDA's current budget to $6.9 billion. But, in the short haul, Benson's economy-seeking victory could become the costliest cornucopia in the history of subsidies.* In recent years only a small proportion (12% in 1958) of corn farms qualified for high supports by staying inside the Government's acreage limits. Farmers who planted more fed it to livestock, sold it on the open market-or sold...
...alltime record of $75 billion, a deficit of more than $4 billion still looms if spending stays at this year's level of $79.2 billion. And the pressures on spending are upward, not downward: the fantastically elaborate military hardware of the missile age keeps getting costlier, each international crisis makes defense cuts harder, and demand for Government services keeps spreading...
...COSTLIER AIR TRAVEL is in the wind. American Airlines, nation's biggest, has petitioned CAB to end first-class roundtrip discounts, reduce family-plan discounts from 50% to 33⅓% effective...
Dearsighted. In Cardiff, Wales, after 29 years of marriage and five children, Alice John got a divorce because her husband always made her sit in the cheap seats in the cinema while he took his ease in the costlier ones toward the rear...
trend that favored costlier issues...