Word: costlier
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ALWAYS EXPENSIVE, a Harvard education is becoming costlier each year. But a new Harvard program announced this year may make the burden easier to bear...
...quite simplistic." It assumes that more growth inevitably means more pollution. Yet the alarming rise in pollution, says Commoner, has been caused not by growth per se but by changes in the composition of growth-for example, the postwar shifts from soaps to detergents. Shifting back to cleaner (and costlier) products and techniques could decrease pollution much more than the Meadows team foresees, while permitting output to continue rising. In essence, the Meadows team projected current trends into the future without analyzing how man might alter them. The whole exercise, say critics, proves again that the past is a shaky...
...becomes scarcer, it will become costlier, Wagner asserts, and companies must search harder for alternative sources of energy, particularly from coal. "We can make gas from coal while it is still in the mine, and we can make oil from coal. Coal has a future, and a very long one; the world has coal reserves for hundreds of years, not just for half a century, as it has for oil." He also argues that the world should limit its use of energy: "At the moment we waste some of it, using it as if there were no tomorrow. We overheat...
...social spending. Yet the math is tricky. Some Democratic economists calculate that his defense cutbacks would save $10 billion less than he thinks. His revenue proposals could raise less than he estimates because Congress tends to shave down proposals for tax increases. His social programs could easily be costlier than he calculates because Congress has a propensity for jacking up spending...
ALWAYS EXPENSIVE, a Harvard education is becoming costlier each year. But a new Harvard program announced this year may make the burden easier to bear...