Word: costly
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...resolution also stated that the cost of compensating the plants' owners for the "arbitrary" shutdown would be too heavy a burden on state taxpayers. The Massachusetts Taxpayers' Foundation, an organization devoted to cutting state taxes, has estimated that the compensation cost could range from $1.3 billion to $3 billion...
...going to find the resources to reinvigorate this country, we're going to have to make some real choices that are not costless choices. First of all, Medicare is a program that when L.B.J. announced it, he thought was going to cost $500 million, and it's heading rapidly toward $100 billion. Thirty percent of that money, which is a mammoth sum, goes to the last year of life...
Fortunately for the Allies, Churchill's mistakes, such as his decision to sacrifice thousands of British troops in a futile defense of Greece in 1941, were less disastrous than Hitler's, which cost him the war. But Churchill survived to write his own sometimes misleading history, which, until recently, has set the tone for many historians. Perhaps Manchester's final volume will help put both him and his role in better perspective...
...rules set up by the reform laws. Congressional candidates, by contrast, receive no public money and tend to be heavily dependent on business donations. This year's victorious Senate candidates will shell out, on average, more than $3 million, up from $1.2 million in 1978. A House seat will cost about $360,000, compared with $130,000 ten years...
DESCRIPTION: Cost of Senate and of House of Representatives campaign...