Word: costs
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...fact, the cost of operating at many of the larger airports has become almost prohibitive for the middle-income private pilot. The safety equipment he must have can cost as much as or more than his plane. At the biggest airports this now includes updated two-way radio equipment capable of handling more than 360 channels (typical cost: $2,000); a transponder, which automatically enlarges the small plane's radar blip on a controller's screen ($1,500); an encoding altimeter, which projects the craft's altitude on the radarscope ($3,500). Even some private pilots concede...
...Giamatti was to assume the burdens of a financially-troubled institution in a seemingly hostile environment. In order to make up for Yale's $6 million deficit, Giamatti will have to initiate cost-cutting measures, which will inevitably alienate certain members of the university. To make matters worse, he will have to face the city of New Haven, which is less than pleased with the presence of the monolithic tax-exempt establishment, considered to be both elitist and stingy...
Harvard's nine Nautilus machines, which cost around $20,000 altogether, are set up so that the athlete should procede in sequence from one machine to the next. Each machine exercises a specific muscle configuration. The athlete runs the gamut of machines doing one set of eight to twelve repetitions on each machine which "exhausts your muscles completely," says supervisor Anderson...
After that date, the vaccines will be more expensive, King added. He did not specify how much the cost would increase...
...sales. Explains LIFE Publisher Charles Whittingham: "The single most important lesson we learned is that readers have to pay for the magazine. They used to get a free ride." Indeed, when LIFE suspended publication, some subscribers were paying as little as 14¢ a copy, a sum well below the cost of paper and ink. The new LIFE is priced at $1.50 a copy, whether purchased at a newsstand or through the mail, and Whittingham expects that circulation revenue alone will now "do a pretty good job" of covering the magazine's operating expenses. Furthermore, the burden of soaring second-class...