Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black liberation in South Africa. He is reported to have told Pieter Botha, the new Prime Minister, that if South Africa plays ball over Namibia, the U.S. will tone down its criticism of apartheid. If that is so, it means that bargaining for a million Namibians is at the cost of more than 20 million South African victims of apartheid. Generally, this whole flurry of diplomatic activity, trying to bring the South African government into an understanding over Namibia, is just playing into the hands of the apartheid regime--buying time, taking the heat off apartheid. I think...
...will be expected to live on a pension of $208 a month plus $265 in social security--a total of $473 a month. The retired Harvard worker's yearly income will be less than $6000, or slightly above the national poverty level. Integration has become the cost-cutting tool that deprives the unprotected worker of the right to a secure retirement...
Unlike the first Roots, a then risky venture produced on a bare-bones budget, the new show is going first class. (Estimated budget: $18 million, three times the cost of the original.) "This time," says Margulies, "the network said, 'Name it -you guys are king of the mountain.' " Over $1 million was spent just to rebuild Henning near Los Angeles: during Roots 2, viewers will see the town grow from a dusty rural outpost into an industrialized modern city. Says Margulies: "Finally I had the money to shoot in an honest-to-God cotton field...
...only in a small way. Refuse to be beaten." Work continued even after bombs damaged the walls and blew out several windows of the completed Lady Chapel. The pounds of merchant benefactors and the pence of a devoted public paid the bills: over the years the cathedral has cost more than $11 million and only $100,000 more remains to be raised for final expenses, although maintenance costs will remain high. At that the cathedral is a bargain: at today's prices, it would probably cost ten times as much to build...
...instinct that one aspect of worship of God is to be aware of our smallness in proportion to his majesty. The medieval builders felt this. To go to worship God is not just like going out to buy a packet of fish and chips." As for the cost, Dean Patey has no apologies: "Compared with what people spend money on-nuclear submarines and Concordes-the cost of a great cathedral is almost negligible. Your nuclear sub and the Concorde will be obsolete in a few years, but this place will be admired in 500 or 1,000 years' time...