Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being 35% more expensive than New York to 53%, largely because a strengthening in the British pound has raised costs in terms of Yankee dollars. That has put the British capital in line with such middlingly expensive cities as Paris, Vienna and Frankfurt, which are all "only" about 55% costlier than New York...
...they use helicopters, snowmobiles and motorcycles, and the animals become spooked by noise. Though no one has yet suggested that the Lapps be made to return to skis, there is concern that machine-caused stress may affect the quality of reindeer meat, which retails for $5.68 per lb. With costlier herding techniques, prices would be even higher. That could increase stress, at least among those who buy the delicacy...
...education. In fact, it claims that pedagogically the decade was among the best ever. College presidents surveyed by the council report that the quality of their faculties improved during the 1970s. Average full-time enrollment rose 16% at private colleges, to an unprecedented 2.5 million -though tuition is generally costlier at private colleges and universities than at public ones. Also, state support of higher education hit a record $16.5 billion. Despite its dire warnings of trouble ahead, the council characteristically remains "on the optimistic side of pessimism...
...course, companies can do more to develop secondary and tertiary sources, many of which will become both economically feasible and absolutely necessary as conventional minerals become costlier in the 1980s. For example, the U.S. imports 93% of its bauxite, the major aluminum ore, but the Bureau of Mines is experimenting with a process to extract alumina from clays found in Georgia and Arkansas. More experiments, more domestic mining and some compromises on the environmental front would help avoid repetition of the oil saga of the 1960s and 1970s, when the U.S. became needlessly overdependent on dubious foreign suppliers...