Word: costly
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...passengers whom they deemed to be "offensive." The allegedly malodorous pair were placed on a later flight, but Freeman is crying foul. She claims that USAir simply wanted to clear two seats on an overbooked plane, and has demanded an apology from the company's president plus the cost of two first-class tickets from New York to Los Angeles for the embarrassing episode. Says she: "On the next flight, I asked a woman if we smelled, and she said...
Congressional Democrats wanted to put the full $50 billion in the budget, but Republicans balked, accusing the Democrats of attempting to embarrass the Administration by overstating the bailout's immediate price tag. Putting $30 billion off budget, however, will increase the eventual cost of this year's bailout expenditures by an estimated $3 billion over the next three decades. That is because the off-budget money will have to be borrowed by the Resolution Funding Corporation, the Government agency responsible for restructuring the thrift industry, which will have to pay investors higher interest rates than the Treasury pays...
...popular saying in this northern Baltic state puts it: Think nine times and speak on the tenth. Estonia's major contribution to the Baltic reform movement has primarily been new ideas, whether blueprints for popular-front movements or drafts of laws regulating economic "cost accounting" at the local level. But when Estonians do speak, they get a hearing. Last November the Estonian supreme soviet passed amendments to the local constitution, investing ultimate legal authority with the republic rather than with Moscow. That act of defiance brought on a finger-wagging lecture from Gorbachev. But the tiny Baltic state held...
...Himalayan highland full of red pandas, there a subtropical jungle where it rains indoors, eleven times a day. The effect is of an entire globe miraculously concentrated, the wild kingdom contained in downtown Chicago or the North Bronx. As American zoos are renovated and redesigned -- at a cost of more than a billion dollars since 1980 -- hosts of once jaded visitors, some even without children, are flooding through the gates. "In the past 15 years," says Cincinnati zoo director Edward Maruska, "we've probably changed more than we've changed in the past hundred...
Here is a Himalayan highland full of red pandas, there a tropical jungle where it rains indoors eleven times a day. As American zoos are renovated and redesigned -- at a cost of more than a billion dollars since 1980 -- hosts of once jaded visitors, some even without children, are flooding through the gates. Inside they find education, entertainment and an urgent mission...