Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After struggling for a while in full pack, I got a cab--all right, it's a bourgeois thing to do, especially when you are trying to be a road person, but I was tried, and the cabbie told me it wouldn't cost more than a couple of dollars. Uh huh. He took me for seven bucks, but I stiffed him on the tip; that should teach him to take advantage of green, Eastern kids...
...greatly entertained by Frank Trippett's clever and amusing Essay, "Running a Good Thing into the Ground" [Sept. 11]. However, please tell Mr. Trippett that we joggers will just keep jogging along in the knowledge that we are doing ourselves and our country a service by reducing the cost of health care through our own do-it-yourself health-maintenance programs...
...giant desk will cost about $3,500; the chair another $700. A couple of comfy sofas carry price tags of about $4,500 each. The main room and an adjoining den are being paneled in Philippine mahogany and carpeted with 85 yds. of virgin New Zealand wool that costs about...
...four-month-old "purification" campaign promises to be more fearsome than the earlier massacres. According to an investigative report issued by the British Foreign Office last week, the earlier purges cost 100,000 lives "as the absolute minimum." In 1975-76, the victims were intellectuals, officials of the previous regime and members of the armed forces, once commanded by Marshal Lon Nol, who escaped to Hawaii in 1975. (Last week the deposed leader challenged Kampuchea's right to U.N. credentials.) In 1977 the government concentrated on killing regional Khmer Rouge commanders who had collaborated with the Vietnamese...
...start of the year. However, board members generally expect that interest rates will peak out before the end of 1978, and back down a bit next year. Nathan foresees declines of around a point on most borrowing rates, and a half-point or more on mortgage loans, which now cost home buyers an average 9.7%. Meanwhile, the economy seems to be developing a surprising immunity to high interest rates. Housing has often led the nation into recession by collapsing at the first sign of tight money, but in August new-home starts still ran at a fast annual rate...