Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market we cannot afford to ignore," says Norman Glenn of MCA, the big Los Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate, which is making discs for the Magnavox player. The company has been rummaging movie company libraries for popular films. While recent releases on the MCA discs cost $15.95, older classics like Destry Rides Again and TV movies (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) sell for $9.95; how-to features like a Julia Child cooking course or films of Ali's boxing bouts are priced at $5.95 and up. RCA, which is producing its own discs, expects to start with about 250 offerings...
Though oil exports last year brought the Shah's government some $22 billion, the cost of pell-mell modernization was high; when the Shah left, Iran owed $7.2 billion to foreign lenders, including an estimated $2.2 billion to U.S. banks. Bankers point out that any attempt by Tehran to renege on those commitments would make the country an international financial pariah...
...Price Index rose by 1.3%, or at an astonishing annual compounded rate of 16.8%. That was more than double the rate for all of 1978 and the biggest monthly jump in four years. The index, which usually foreshadows trends in retail prices, was lifted in part by the soaring cost of farm products, especially beef and veal, which rose 13% for the month. But finished goods like cars and appliances rose at an even steeper pace...
Still, many Congressmen fear that payouts from the program would bloat the budget deficit well beyond the $29 billion target set by the Administration for fiscal 1980. The White House calculates that based on an inflation rate of 7.5% for all of that period, real wage insurance should cost no more than $2.5 billion. But some forecasts point to an average inflation rate of 9% or more this year...
...charge was that he arranged to have the company bail him and three partners out of a bad investment in some Texas movie theaters by having Starr buy the theaters. Rather than fight the charge, Buckley signed a tough consent decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed to other Starr stockholders and to forgo some payments Starr owed him. The total cost to Buckley could reach $1.4 million, which is unusually stiff for an SEC case...