Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephone than during a personal session." Pre-election polls usually rely on one in-depth, in-person survey conducted a few months before the campaign. Follow-up polls are usually done by telephone. Most candidates prefer to save the $50,000 that a person-to-person follow-up would cost. This year that was a critical mistake in many states...
Whatever it is, it is expensive. Superman has cost about $35 million, according to Salkind, or roughly four times its original budget. This strained the considerable ingenuity of Ilya's father Alexander, who finds the backers and has veto power on major decisions. The project has gone through three infusions of scriptwriters, two directors and a change of location from Rome to London, after many sets had been constructed in Italy. At one time a money shortage almost caused production to stop. Marlon Brando had walked off with his $3.7 million for playing Superman's father, but Stamp...
Often the newer agencies are headed by enthusiasts who see a mission to push new rules without regard to price. As a result, they have made little attempt to apply the most elementary cost-benefit analyses. Cheaper solutions that could achieve the same ends or almost the same ends have been ignored in favor of overkill. America has just not got value for money from its red-tape spending spree...
...cost has risen sharply since then as business has found it progressively more difficult and more expensive to meet the tougher and tougher standards coming into effect. Small businessmen and big companies are only now beginning to feel the high costs of complying with far-ranging regulations like the 1975 Hazardous Materials Transportation Act and the 1976 Toxic Substances...
...result, many estimates put next year's cost of regulation at more than $100 billion, an amount that approaches Government spending on defense...