Word: costly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieve that vision, Nixon outlined a program that, when fully operational in 1971, would cost $2.5 billion annually-up from $1.5 billion already provided for in the 1970 budget. Next year the Administration plans to spend $270 million to get it started...
...spent to provide a family of four with a minimum of $100 a month worth of stamps redeemable for food. If the family has an income of under $30 a month, it would get the stamps free. For those slightly better off, food stamps would be provided at a cost no greater than 30% of their incomes. The chances are that the Administration will eventually switch from giving food stamps to disbursing cash...
Conservative Ploy. Labor's backbenchers, a traditionally insecure lot, are plainly worried that the issue of union reform may cost them their jobs. Without the prop of union treasuries and union electoral support, Labor candidates would virtually lose by default. In this dire situation, some backbenchers began wondering aloud in the corridors whether Labor might employ a favorite Conservative Party tactic-that of changing Prime Ministers whenever party popularity plummets. This ploy enables the party to shift the blame for past errors onto the shoulders of the outgoing leader...
...economy slide downhill for more than a decade. In 1967 alone, the rate of inflation was 135%, and the government ran short of retirement funds. Tough, recent measures taken by Pacheco Areco have slowed inflation to just over 6% for the past nine months, but at the highly unpopular cost of wage and price controls and curbs on strikes. The Tupamaros have not been able to persuade Uruguay's powerful Moscow-oriented labor unions, with their 240,000 members, to make common cause. Even so, they can rely on a fertile popular base as long as the economic squeeze...
...billion-a-year military aircraft business, and they might lose a great deal less. Textile and boot manufacturers would suffer, and so-to a lesser extent-would electronics companies, airlines and railroads. The prospects are that war-aggravated inflation would continue, at least for a short period. Many cost increases are programmed into the economy, among them a scheduled 9% pay raise for nearly 3,000,000 federal employees next July...