Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of strategy errors is likely to cost Gov. Michael S. Dukakis the presidency, a bipartisan panel of campaign experts told about 150 people at the Kennedy School last night...
...waiter came promptly, and we ordered two Bud Lites--no sense in getting blitzed right off. She carded us, and we proudly handed over our i.d.s. Although the beers cost $3 each, the portions were ample...
...team captain, Bonnie leads by example. He works hard at practice and plays hard in games--no matter what the circumstances. He injured his ankle the first day of pre-season. He didn't let the injury cost him a single day of practice. He still plays every game in pain...
...most successful tactic of the pro-repeal campaign has been to argue that eliminating the wage would contribute to lower construction costs and help create lower municipal tax rates. But according to the pro-wage Committee for Quality of Life, the average cost of labor on a construction bid is only 15 to 20 percent. If the prevailing wage were repealed, they claim, and wages were cut by as much as 20 percent, the overall decrease in the price of the project to a community would be as little as 2 to 3 percent...
Graham's campaign has printed 100,000 stickers for the district's 20,000-odd registered voters, she said. Campaign workers will mail them, hand them out from door to door and mail them to voters--at a total cost of around $50,000, she said...