Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CENTRAL AMERICA: Favors military and economic aid to the contras, and opposes the Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Favors a balanced budget amendment. Will consider cutting some domestic programs while freezing spending on all programs, except low-income programs. TAXES: Will not raise taxes. Favors an oil import tax, with cost reductions for home heating oil. TRADE: Is against Gephardt amendment, but agrees that some action must be taken against nations that practice unfair trade...
...would then have to be compensated under state and federal law for the full value of the signs. The problem is that in the eight years since the ban on new signs was passed, the value of the existing billboards has skyrocketed. The highway commission estimates that it would cost the prohibitive total of some $12.3 million to buy all the signs that are blocking construction. One billboard, which carries a Dewar's Scotch whisky ad and a promotion for Hilton hotels, is said to be worth...
...gimmick was instantly successful and surprisingly profitable. More than 100 diners showed up with the flyers over a three-week period. They were given menus without prices, but wound up paying an average of $33 for their meals, about $7.50 more than the usual cost. "We were betting on people's good taste and their sense of fair play," says Rowitch. He is going to mail another 6,000 flyers in the coming weeks...
Bennett and Carnes "have been trying to stir upcontroversy about the [college cost] issue, ratherthan understand it," O'Keefe said
...installation of an elevator is one of a series of improvements recommended by a six-month study completed last December. Most of the renovation of the Yard, which Parsons estimated will cost "many millions" of dollars, will not begin until the summer of 1989, Parsons said...