Word: costly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange for Wilson's agreement to drop the proposed penalties, Feather gave his "solemn pledge" that the unions would do something themselves about the stoppages. Such strikes account for 95% of all work stoppages in Britain, and last year cost the country 4,500,000 man-days. Whether Feather will be able to redeem his pledge is uncertain. In August, 1,300 blast-furnacemen at a steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, ignored his efforts to end a three-week walkout that hammered steel output to a 17-month...
...safe votes flown in from the U.S., which helped the ruling coalition to hang on to all but one of the 39 seats that it was defending in the 60-man council. If the well-heeled Christian Democrats thought the airlift worth the $64,000 or more that it cost the party, so did the shuttle voters. Said Secondo Moretti, a Detroit bricklayer: "I'd travel twice as far as this to vote as long as they...
After two weeks' practice, Candy is reading one word a second, but expects to go as high as her Braille rate of 150 words per minute. Although the initial cost of the device may be thousands of dollars, its developers say, mass production could bring its cost down to that of "an inexpensive...
...while a helicopter tried to dry out the soggy grass-Laver and Roche gingerly tested each other. They broke each other's serves an astonishing seven times. After the ninth game Rod calmly paused to switch to spiked shoes, fully aware that adjustment to the shift would probably cost him the set. It did. But in the second set Laver settled into a flawless groove. He broke Roche's spirit by consistently parrying his powerful serve, glided swiftly over the court to fire winner after winner past an opponent whose concentration collapsed into a desperate scramble. In just...
...Alaska held a down payment of $180 million; the rest is due in ten days. To cash the checks through ordinary bank channels would have required four days, and cost the state $180,000 in lost interest. But this was no ordinary transaction. The Bank of America chartered a jet (for $23,000) to carry the checks east to be cashed in time to be invested in Treasury bills the next morning...