Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration's main plan for helping housing is to stop inflation. Unless that is done, construction, and especially land costs will continue to rise, and mortgage money will become still scarcer and costlier. The result could be a housing famine that no politically conceivable amount of public subsidy could alleviate...
Secret Formulas. The formula for each additive is closely guarded, and manufacturers discuss the ingredients only in vague terms. One major ingredient is usually polyisobutylene, which is made by combining molecules of certain chemicals with a butane derivative of crude oil. It produces approximately the same results as far costlier additives in improving the viscosity, or thickness, of oil-and can be bought at the rate of 920 a gallon...
They keep adding bigger and costlier planes to their fleets and try to attract more business with lures like family-fare reductions. Northeast Airlines had a first-half loss of $1,289,000. At least some of that can be attributed to the galloping price of beef - and Northeast's high cost of living up to its billing as "the all-steak airline...
What should the tourist buy? Certainly not Chinese clothes, leather goods or toys, which in general are costlier or less stylish than those from other countries. Chinese ivory is not so fine as Thailand's. High-quality Chinese jade is exorbitant: an inchlong pendant, for example, sells for about...
...housing prices climb and mortgage loans become costlier and scarcer, more and more people find themselves forced to stay in older houses for longer than they would like. Sooner rather than later, pipes crack, paint peels-and homeowners have to face up to the often traumatic experience of calling in that new aristocrat of the U.S. labor force, the repairman...