Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret negotiations throughout the second semester, Lee tried to secure a concert and, only weeks before the end of the academic year, announced an appearance by pop-folk artist Suzanne Vega which would cost the council over...
...Harvard OnLine Library Information System (HOLLIS) which cost the University $3 million, opens officially, although many faculty say the library system is not yet up to date...
Calling Bhutto a living symbol of democracy, Bush said the U.S. should "chart new ways to strengthen old bonds" with Pakistan. Despite a report in The Washington Post yesterday that the Bush administration is considering the sale of 60 F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan at a cost of $1.4 billion, the two leaders made no mention of any such agreement in their welcoming remarks...
Down below, a sea of folding chairs blankets Tercentenary Theater, stretching from Memorial Church to the steps of Widener Library and from University Hall to Sever Hall. The University has rented 73,000 chairs to accommodate the week's activities--19,000 for Commencement exercises alone--at a cost of $.70 to about $1.50 each, says Dwyer...
...save the planet, NASA is developing a long-term program of satellite flights designed to monitor intensively earth's ecological problems. Data received from sophisticated instruments aboard orbiting unmanned space platforms would help measure pollution, deforestation and other global threats. But funding for the proposal, which could eventually cost $20 billion, remains uncertain...