Word: costly
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...hand, Holt beat Bulger by a count of better than three to one in the South End and Back Bay, but an average turnout that may have been as low as 10 percent cost Holt the necessary lead, according to AI Glass, Holt's volunteer coordinator...
Planning for HOLLIS began in December 1980. Named in part after the family that donated Hollis Hall, the system is based on a program that Harvard bought from Northwestern University and spent years customizing. Although the total cost of creating and implementing the system has not been calculated, much of the funding came from a 1983 grant of $1.2 million from the Pew Memorial Trust. HOLLIS first went on-line in 1985 when the libraries began using it to keep track of new acquisitions...
Obviously, enacting any or all of these approaches would be costly and entail hard choices. But making such decisions is a President's job. For the $3.6 billion cost of one nuclear aircraft-carrier task force, of which the U.S. already has five, the country could pay the full four-year tuitions of 90,000 private-college students. By forgoing one year's cost of living increase in Social Security benefits, the U.S. could raise the average salary of the nation's 2.3 million public schoolteachers by $3,260. The question the next President must decide is which of these...
...billion study in poor planning. When the system was designed in the late 1970s, Dade . County officials decided to run the rails from downtown to the southern part of Miami, where they expected growth. But most new building occurred in the north and west. At the same time, cost overruns and federal budget cuts knocked out plans to extend the rails into those parts of town. Result: Metrorail cannot deliver residents of lower-income neighborhoods to the northern suburbs, where many of them work. Nor can it transport white-collar commuters in the opposite direction, from the north to downtown...
Bush's patriotism is spurious for another reason. It's no-cost patriotism that demands nothing other than self-satisfaction, emotional and material. The Bush-style patriot may refuse to pay more taxes, in fact may demand new tax breaks, while clinging to every Government benefit he now enjoys. The Bush- style patriot may call for an assertion of American power but needn't put his own body on the line; he may be "proud" of service writing press releases in Indiana. And the Bush-style patriot can measure his patriotism by his intolerance of people and opinions he doesn...