Word: costly
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...tall order, but the National Park Service wants to jack up the 208- ft.-tall, 2,800-ton Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and move it half a mile inland, away from encroaching surf. Only 200 ft. of sand now separates the 118-year-old tower from the churning Atlantic. Cost of the proposed move: $8.8 million. Local residents who have grown up in the shadow of the lighthouse are not yet sold on the idea. "They tell us we can't climb the tower anymore because it has cracks in it, but they can pick it up and move it without...
...with Warner, and instead launched a $70-a-share tender offer for 100 million of Warner's nearly 200 million shares. That would buy Time a controlling interest in its merger partner; the remaining Warner stock will be acquired later in exchange for cash and securities. The deal will cost Time the kind of debt it and Warner had hoped to avoid -- somewhere between $7 billion and $14 billion. Unlike the original Time-Warner arrangement, the initial acquisition will not need the approval of Time shareholders because the first part of the transaction will involve only cash...
...environmentalists, industrialists and key lawmakers but gave them no hint of what its members were thinking. The President's advisers then fought it out among themselves at six meetings of the Domestic Policy Council. EPA administrator William Reilly pressed for stringent measures; budget boss Richard Darman argued that the cost did not justify the health and environmental benefits. Bush attended three of those meetings and called environmentalists and industrialists into the White House to present their cases directly to him. Finally, White House chief of staff John Sununu took three 30-page single-spaced option papers to Camp David...
...prepared to leave the Government in January, Pierce pointed proudly to his three Government decorations and declared, "President Reagan asked me to reduce the size and cost of Government and at the same time try to take care of the most needy. I think I did that very well." The cynicism of that boast has become glaringly evident. Since the release of a HUD inspector general's report in April, the agency has become the target of inquiry by two congressional committees into charges of influence peddling. The Justice Department has launched a nationwide probe into the possible theft...
...company rejects Paramount's hostile takeover bid and refashions its agreement to acquire Warner in a deal that could ultimately cost $14 billion and create a heavy load of debt...