Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter-century, Detroit has been the scene of one of the nation's bitterest newspaper wars. All-out efforts by the afternoon News and the morning Free Press to beat each other into submission cost millions and kept newsstand prices and advertising rates at rock bottom. Then two years ago both papers agreed to an odd sort of truce. Gannett Co., owner of the News, and Knight-Ridder Inc., owner of the Free Press, decided to take advantage of a federal law designed to preserve the editorial voice of a dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations...
Another skirmish erupted last week in the battle between lawyers and doctors over the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance. The spur was a suggestion made by the American Medical Association and other doctors' groups that medical malpractice cases be taken away from the courts. Instead, they would be decided by state boards that would have responsibility for disciplining doctors as well. The plan would also impose strict guidelines on damage awards, including a cap on noneconomic damages such as those for "pain and suffering...
...this hoped-for capability, many top defense experts wonder if the Seawolf truly is the right sub at the right cost at the right time. In the past, the Navy has relied on vastly superior technology to nullify the Soviets' 3-to-1 numerical advantage in submarines. But rather suddenly, the U.S. lead in submarine technology has seriously eroded. Says Admiral Carlisle Trost, Chief of Naval Operations: "The Soviets are where we thought they'd be in the mid-1990s...
Iowa and New Hampshire leaders argue that their states allow lesser-known candidates to conduct low-cost "retail" campaigns for months, testing their wares and encountering thousands of voters face to face. True, but the demands of that kind of campaigning work against prospects who hold difficult jobs -- New York Governor Mario Cuomo is the best current example -- and pressure candidates to lavish attention on small, well-organized interest groups. In the actual caucuses, less than 15% of enrolled Iowa voters usually participate, and the reported results are sometimes misleading. Drake University Professor Hugh Winebrenner, in a new book...
...make their presence felt on caucus night. Senior-citizen centers are frequent campaign stops, as most candidates vie to affirm their commitment to the sanctity of ever rising Social Security benefits. Only Babbitt, who advocates full taxation of benefits for the affluent, and Dole, who is willing to freeze cost of living adjustments, dissent from this united front of pandering politicians...