Word: costs
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...programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence master and even he is apt to produce worthless intelligence or metamorphose into a double-agent. The intelligence gained is simply not worth the monetary or human cost (at least 40 suicides among such agents in place have been documented according to Corson...
Social Security will pay more than $101 billion to 35 million Americans this year. The trustees' report assumes that beneficiaries will get a 9.8-per-cent cost-of-living increase this July that will cost the government $10 billion...
...policy also promises much political pain and peril for Carter. The essence of his program is to strip away the controls that have held the cost of domestically produced crude oil at artificially low levels ever since the postembargo days of 1974. Next month, using Executive authority, he will order a gradual phase-out of the controls so that they will be entirely eliminated by Oct. 1, 1981, when by law they would have expired anyway...
...surcharges on the basic OPEC price. Under Carter's plan, the proceeds of the oil tax would be funneled into an Energy Security Fund that would bankroll the development of alternative energy sources such as solar power and coal gasification, help low-income families pay for the rising cost of fuel and stimulate the development of energy-efficient mass transit systems such as rail and bus service...
...main sticking point is the cost of living clause. The industry has offered the drivers a boost equal to 65% of the rise in the Consumer Price Index, to be paid on an annual basis. The final payment would not be made until the fourth year and would not be counted in the three-year package. The union insists on getting the increase twice a year, with the next-to-final payment falling due in the third year. That would lift the overall settlement two percentage points above what the Government is willing to accept...