Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built the yacht for more than $100 million, but the hyper-rich Sultan of Brunei took possession of the boat earlier this year, when Khashoggi defaulted on a personal loan. The new owner will dock the craft from time to time near his casinos in Atlantic City. It will cost $2 million or so to dredge a deeper channel to accommodate it, but who's counting...
Tiff Wood: the unluckiest man in rowing. After rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...
...head one of the first biotechnology firms to exploit genetic engineering techniques, claims his company can do the job and turn a profit at the same time. He estimates that his "moderately sized bio firm" would require 300 scientists working over a period of 10 years at a cost of $300 million. The only problem, Gilbert says, is "how to make money while the research is going...
...would cost as much as city hospital," Gilbert says...
PLANS FOR new incinerating plants have met similar stumbling blocks. Incinerators with high emissions standards are the best solution to the problem. But all of the proposed plants have been stalled or scrapped. All incinerators cost money, and ones that insure proper pollution control cost lots of money...