Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governor also aims to reduce the price of health care in Massachusetts, which is about 25 percent above the national average, with the use of a cost...
...governor's proposal, which is expected to cost close to $600 million a year, will almost completely restructure the financing and organization of Massachusetts health care to insure nearly 600,000 citizens who are currently uninsured...
...Today, at 74, he is still pushing it. But now Tange, the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, is at the center of another bitter controversy, over his design for new Tokyo metropolitan government offices. With a main section 797 ft. tall and an estimated construction cost of $780 million, this project would be the biggest, most expensive Japanese building ever -- too big and too expensive, his critics say. Even more disconcerting to many of Tange's peers is the building's design: with its split tower, ersatz campaniles and creme brulee surface of glass-and-granite panels...
...introduced a dizzying array of new machines that could thrust it in front. During its last fiscal year, DEC increased its sales by nearly 25%, to $9.4 billion, and doubled its profits, to $1.14 billion. In the past 18 months its stock price has tripled, to 190, surpassing the cost of an IBM share, which closed last week at about...
...average sale price of a home in Bradbury, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, has in the past year gone from $459,000 to $610,000, according to a survey by the nationwide broker network of RELO, a Chicago-based relocation service. In Greenwich, Conn., northeast of Manhattan, the average cost has skyrocketed incredibly, from $467,500 to $1.2 million since the summer of 1986. Prices are not rising that fast in heartland suburbs, but almost every region of the U.S. has a strong luxury-housing market, with the exception of depressed oil-patch states like Texas and Oklahoma...