Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Minister Ro Jae Hyun was waiting there. Ro called in Premier Choi Kyu Hah, who reacted with unexpected forcefulness. He insisted that the nation should be informed immediately of Park's death and that he should carry out his constitutional duty "no matter what, even at the cost of my own life and the lives of my family." Ro and Chung sided with the Premier, and Kim Jae Kyu suddenly found himself saddled with full responsibility for the bloodbath. He and his top KCIA lieutenants were placed in custody...
Connally and Reagan grudgingly accepted the offer-the Texan's first ad, which cost about $31,000, was shown last week -but Carter was determined to get 30 minutes in early December to announce for reelection. His campaign committee filed a complaint with the FCC. "For them to say that the political season hasn't started is absurd," said a Carter aide. "The reason they don't want to sell the time is because it'll cost them money...
Some of Chrysler's deficits result from the high cost of meeting clean air standards and fuel efficiency requirements. But it was the gas shortages of last spring that triggered Chrysler's ruinous 1979 sales slump (indeed, recently Ford and General Motors have also been losing money on their U.S. operations). Yet the fundamental problem has been poor management; Chrysler has consistently failed to come up with enough models that sell well, and its share of the U.S. auto market has slumped from 14% three years ago to 11% now. The firm's total indebtedness, including that...
Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun has a "nightmare vision" of a major employer without company-wide unions such as IBM or Du Pont announcing some day that it was starting cost-of-living allowances in order to "keep the union organizers off their front lawns." Okun warns that if such automatic inflation pay increases spread into nonunion firms, "you can mark that on your calendar as a black day for fighting inflation...
...OPEC nations go, so go the countries that pump the approximately 40% of the free world crude that is not under the cartel's control: last week both Britain and Canada moved toward higher prices that will keep the cost of their oil in line with, or even a little ahead of, what OPEC is currently getting...