Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford once led an orchestra through a swimming pool while the musicians played When the Saints Go Marching In. He divorced Anne, his wife of 24 years, in 1964 to marry Maria Cristina Vettore Austin, a divorced Italian jet-setter. That marriage broke up in 1980, and the settlement cost Henry an estimated $15 million. He married Kathleen DuRoss, at the time an operator of a Detroit disco, later that year...
...available from the i.d. card office in Holyoke Center. He just told them he lost his i.d., batting his eyelashes in that innocent way he did when his mother entered his room just as he was putting out a cigarette or stashing the Playboy under his pillow. It cost him $25, but what are parents for? He charged it home...
...ground-based ASAT lasers are expected to be in effect long before space-based ones. The U.S. ASAT program involves launching an 18-ft. satellite buster from a high- flying F-15 aircraft, but it is plagued by problems. Moreover, the Air Force now expects the fledgling system to cost $5.3 billion -- more than an aircraft carrier. Nonetheless, argues U.S. Vice Chief of Staff General John Piotrowski, "there's no question in my mind that we have a compelling need to deter the Soviets from attacking our satellites...
...rusty keys and didn't work," says Ron. "I fixed it and traded it with a guy for a pig. Well, the pig had eight piglets, and I traded five of them for three VW bugs, none of which ran. I overhauled one of them to get it going; cost me $40. The next litter I traded five more piglets for another VW. We named the pig Tubby Typewriter after the typewriter...
...People need reassurance that what they want to do will work out," says Patricia St. Hilaire-Croteau, 32, a TransDesigns decorator in Connecticut. For a cost of about $500, a face-lifting might include three custom-framed reproductions and four toss pillows. A full room overhaul, which includes several pieces of furniture, an area rug, window treatments and art, might run about...