Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosion of a Greenwich Village Weather Underground bomb factory, will be represented by attorneys who have consulted with her father, Civil Liberties Lawyer Leonard Boudin. They, as well as Brown's lawyers, are expected to put up a vigorous, conventional defense. That trial could be even costlier than its predecessor. -By Michael S. Serrill...
...such exploration requires complicated machines like Fermilab's Tevatron. By pummeling the nucleus, the atom's central mass, with protons or other subatomic particles, physicists can literally tear apart the fabric of matter, somewhat like peeling layers from an onion. Every peel, however, requires increasingly powerful and costlier machines. As Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky notes, "The smaller the objects, the bigger the microscope we must use to see them...
...Princeton 12.6% to $12,910, and Columbia College anticipates a 12% boost to $12,750. Harvard will increase its tab by merely 8.7%, its lowest rise in four years. Even at $13,150, Harvard will not reign as the most expensive university in the U.S. Two that are costlier: Bennington College ($13,510) and M.I.T...
...scandals, the second could prove the costlier, as it calls into question the integrity of the church's teachings. Prophet Ellen G. White (1827-1915) rallied the group that became known as the Adventists following the "Great Disappointment" of Oct. 22, 1844, the date when thousands of Protestants expected the Second Coming (or Advent) of Jesus Christ to occur. When it did not, White, a "messenger" of God and interpreter of the Bible, said she received a vision explaining that on Oct. 22 Christ had entered a new "sanctuary" in heaven to begin "in vestigative judgment" of the lives...
...Force attack plane designed to provide close air support for battlefield troops comes from a top general of the Tactical Air Command. Why, then, is there $357 million in the Pentagon's fiscal 1983 budget for 20 more of the aircraft, each of which is $1.6 million costlier than the more sophisticated F-16 Fighting Falcon? The answer, insists the general: "We are buying them only because of political pressure...