Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he arrived in Moscow last August, a Western diplomat had to choose which of two cars to buy. In the end he picked the one he liked less and that cost more. His reason: "The owner threw in one of the American maps with...
...WEEKLY, which will make its debut in February, has been two years in the planning. It is expected to start life with a circulation of 500,000, mostly subscribers, and hopes to grow to 1 million before turning a profit in four years. Publisher Michael J. Klingensmith estimates the cost of the launch at $30 million after taxes. The magazine is the company's first major start-up venture since TV-CABLE WEEK, a listings guide for cable-company subscribers, folded after just five months in 1983. Another Time Inc. magazine project, PICTURE WEEK, was tested...
Maloney said the direct veto would cost the city $1.57 million, and estimated that the total cost of the cuts would be about $3.3 million...
...sounds like a noble goal. But what reasons does the president give for launching the nation on a mission that will almost certainly take decades to complete, at a cost of billions of dollars...
...Hubble telescope has been sitting in clean storage since the Challenger tragedy--initially at a cost of $18 million a month. The cost has been declining, but by the time Hubble is ready to go in January, the total cost of the delay will be approaching $468 million...