Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Entertainment shows, meanwhile, are facing a cost squeeze. Hollywood producers, who must negotiate with the tight-fisted networks over fees to cover their production costs, are avoiding shows with elaborate action scenes and expensive locations (partly because such shows are doing poorly on the rerun market). "I sit in on development meetings," says Harris Katleman, president of 20th Century Fox Television Production. "I don't let someone develop a Star Wars. It would be crazy. We don't do westerns either, and we don't do big shows that require locations, car crashes and lots of stunts...
...played on nationalist sentiments by criticizing the trade practices of foreign countries and by ominously warning of their taking over American businesses. He raised the specter that Republicans are out to slash Social Security -- never acknowledging that he, like Bush and Quayle, had voted for a freeze in cost of living increases. And dusting off a line he had used at the convention, Bentsen articulated the Democratic case against the apparent success of the U.S. economy: "You know, if you let me write $200 billion worth of hot checks every year, I could give you the illusion of prosperity...
...price that the taxpayers will pay for too rapid financial deregulation and laxness in oversight is murky at this time, but, in the long run, will be staggering. Bank bailouts may well cost the taxpayers billions of dollars. Even though the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has a fund of about $15 billion to deal with banks in difficulty, this is not likely to be adequate to deal with the amount of trouble that could arise as a result of a serious recession and Third World-debt defaults. American banks have an exposure of close to $100 billion to Third World...
...could sample a different Bangkok restaurant every night for 30 years and still not exhaust the city's repertoire. Nor are these mere holes-in-the-wall. Many are landscaped garden restaurants with pavilions strung with lights and lotus ponds at their center. Dinner at such a palace will cost perhaps $8 a person. As for postprandial appetites, they are taken care of in a night world as treacherously bewitching as any on earth -- one winking neon blur of bars and discos and imperial, four-story massage parlors...
...becoming an interlocking network of imported dreams. Men from the gulf have turned parts of Bangkok into a pirated version of a hookah- and-hooker Arabian Nights fantasy; Japanese visitors fill the golf courses, serene in the knowledge that a week of putting, together with planes and hotels, will cost less than seven days on a course at home. And many Westerners trek into the hills around Chiangmai to live for a few days with the local tribes, sleeping in huts and savoring , if only from a distance, the village opium...