Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the University's office of fiscal services, says the Opportunity Act would benefit Harvard students more than the tax credit because students at high-cost schools like Harvard are more apt to borrow money to finance their tuition payments and therefore need the expanded loan program. Also, a $500 tax credit hardly makes a dent in a Harvard term-bill whereas the different grant and loan programs can provide more meaningful amounts of aid for those students eligible...
Rabkin, however, says the real issue is not delaying the unions, but rather the quality of the health care Beth Israel can give to its patients. "It cost a hell of a lot of money and time to go through the appeals process, and we wouldn't do it for the purpose of delaying," he says. The hospital argued in its brief to the Court that patients' health could suffer if they heard violent arguments about unions, or if they read what he terms "scurrilous" pamphlets questioning the quality of Beth Israel's health care...
...stakes are high--the plant will cost in excess of $110 million and a one-year delay in construction could add as much as $7 million to that bill. Legal delays have already taken their toll on the facility, putting construction at least one-year behind schedule, L. Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said last week...
...used Civil Defense truck (1936 vintage), and put a plowing blade on it to clear the town airport of snow. Last fall, when City Manager Merle Strouse decided that the old plow had reached "the last of its days," he investigated new snowplows and found that they cost $25,000, more than twice the $9,800 that the town wanted to pay. He asked the Federal Aviation Administration to help out. The FAA decided that the town really needed a bigger snowplow-for $83,000. In addition, the agency decreed, in order to have a new snowplow there must...
...protect high-risk witnesses, like the ones testifying against organized crime, the Justice Department in 1970 embarked on a Witness Security Program that has cost $62 million so far. What the Government is up against is shown by a March 1978 report on the fate of witnesses and informers not protected by the program in 50 narcotics-related cases: 45 murders, nine attempted murders, nine death threats and assorted physical assaults...