Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...college, however, my tastes changed. I didn't want to try every new game that came along; they were too complicated and they cost too much money. So I gravitated toward pinball, a game you can control instead of having it control...
...cost of sending a team of selected rugby players from New England colleges on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in June of 1988. The tour--the brainchild of Kingston--is sponsored by the New England Rugby Federation Union (N.E.R.F.U.) and has 30 representatives from 14 colleges in New England...
...order to compete in Australia, each player has to raise $1500-$1800, the cost of transportation, room, board and other minor expenses. Kingston is trying to lower the price tag for each player by encouraging donations and helping with fund-raisers...
...Soviet agents prowl through the building and plant listening devices, authorities closed the electronically shielded meeting-room "bubble," tore out cryptographic and other communications gear and sent messages to Washington by courier through Frankfurt. Those steps, as well as a global investigation of the Marine guard force, have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 million. But last week one senior Marine officer concluded that the alleged penetration of the embassy "just didn't happen...
...fees for Government services, and similarly innocuous revenue raisers. For example, under the Democratic proposal, the income tax deduction for interest on home- equity loans would be limited to the first $100,000 of principal. At the same time, neither side is pushing hard for any cuts in the cost-of-living allowance for entitlements, which would rankle too large a constituent group. Any such reduction in the growth of Social Security benefits, insists Budget Director James Miller, "is not on the table...