Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Excavators decided to core the well when a test core taken last Thursday revealed that the small artifacts in the well did not merit costlier hand excavation, Gray C. Graffan, project archeologist at the institute, said yesterday...
...strategy is to test Samson some more in the Third World, then gradually introduce it into the U.S. Perhaps in five years people may be able to buy it throughout the country, for a penny or so more a bottle than Coke or Tab, because it is costlier to make and the company aims to profit. Moving faster would be hard, Austin points out, because Coca-Cola is already at full production with its regular soft drinks...
...every barrel of domestic crude that a refinery processes, the company must make a payment into an entitlement pool. The payment raises the price of each barrel of domestic oil halfway up to the cost of more expensive OPEC crude. At the same time, any refinery that imports costlier OPEC crude gets to withdraw an equal amount from the pool. For example, a refinery that buys domestic oil for, say, $9.45 a bbl. would pay about $2.50 to the fund; a refinery that imports foreign oil for $14.55 would then collect that $2.50. Observes Oil Economist Arnold Safer: "The entitlements...
...player permits viewers to skip ahead or back, or to repeat the same 15-sec. segment over and over again. The costlier Magnavox system is more versatile: the action on the 30-min. discs can be run in slow motion or reversed or even held in freeze-frame position...
...savings bond was pronounced dead last week, slipping away to join such other relics of the pre-inflationary past as the 5? candy bar and the two-bit shoeshine. The bonds will continue to be sold through Dec. 31, 1979, after which they will be replaced by a costlier series that will pay the same 6% but have a much longer maturity. The old issue sold for $18.75 and paid $25 in five years; the new one will cost $25 but pay off $50 in eleven years and nine months...