Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the proposal, each one way trip made by an oil tanker under U.S. protection through the gulf would cost $250,000 or the actual cost of the services, whichever is more. Oil companies not paying the fee would be subject to penalties and the protection service would be halted. The committee staff estimated the escort fee would generate at least $95 million a year...
...estimated the cost of the administration's policy of escorting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers through the war-torn region at $200 million to date. The Pentagon has said it costs about $20 million a month more than military would spend ordinarily on the ships and troops...
Downstairs, students in a time-management class are discovering how much it costs to take a break. Add up salary, benefits, perks, overhead, support staff and contribution to profits, and a manager's time is worth $1.50 a minute -- much more in some cases. Says Instructor Larry Baker: "I had a sales force that was responsible for millions in sales, and one of them said, 'You mean if I sit and drink a cup of coffee for five minutes, that just cost my company $287?' Well, yeah, it did." Imagine what it costs when some jerk gets...
...says Instructor Ted Urban. "I've seen diagrams with 2,000 activities that would fill up that whole wall. People say, 'Oh, my God!' " But the diagram becomes a road map. You can use it to figure out that a two-week delay at Step 16 is going to cost $100,000. The alternative is to wing it, which can get expensive -- especially if you count the $287 coffee breaks...
...Pentagon accuses the Commerce Department of letting computers and other sophisticated gear slip into the hands of the Soviets. But advocates of freer trade point out that U. S. restrictions are tight enough to cost the country $9 billion in lost sales every year. -- Investors find profits by taking stock in bankruptcy. -- A new book tells how the Chinese vanquished famine...