Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hire engineers to build them. In 1967 he observed that while large city newspapers had the money to invest in modern phototypesetting machines that cost roughly $30,000 each, smaller daily and weekly papers were still struggling with old-fashioned Linotype machines that were four tunes slower and far costlier to operate. So he instructed the engineers at his Compugraphic Corp. to develop a small, stripped-down phototypesetting machine that he could sell to small dailies and weeklies for no more than $10,000. Today Compugraphic is the nation's largest manufacturer of phototypesetting equipment, big and small alike...
...nuclear blasting for natural gas looks quite bleak. The program is already under attack from environmentalists who fear that the atomic explosions may damage buildings on the surface, trigger earthquakes and leave behind dangerous radiation. The General Accounting Office recently noted that nuclear recovery of gas could be costlier than its proponents originally thought; the cracks created in the sandstone by the A-bombs may close faster than the AEC'S experts had predicted, limiting the amount of gas that could escape. In addition, the GAO touched on a subject worrying many oil companies. The natural gas deposits...
...crisis has also brought on a sizable rise in the dollar's value because the U.S. depends much less on the Arabs' oil than the Europeans and Japanese do. As oil becomes scarcer and costlier, their industries stand to be hit painfully, and they will have to spend proportionately more than the U.S. for imported petroleum. These factors will damage their payments balances and weaken their currencies. As foreign currencies decline, the dollar should become relatively stronger. Alan Murray, a vice president of New York's First National City Bank, predicts that the dollar will float...
...fast developer will go on the market in mid-1974. It will probably turn up first in television news departments, some of which are switching to super 8 from more expensive 16-mm. film, and pose a threat to suppliers of videotape equipment; tape is much costlier and harder to edit than film. Though amateur movie buffs will benefit from the fast processor, they should pause before rushing to place an order. The price...
...more socially responsible public attitude toward land. States and localities are imposing stricter zoning laws and environmental standards, punitive taxes on speculators, even some outright bans on development (see story page 94). The new moves are long overdue, but they have the side effect of making land development ever costlier, reducing the supply of what real estate men call "buildable" land...