Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fisher, 56, located a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Florida in 1622 carrying 47 tons of gold and silver. Since then, he and his company have been diving for the treasure, which could be worth as much as $600 million. The mission's cost so far: $5 million and four lives, including that of Fisher...
During the daytime, what action there is tends to center on the city's private-enterprise markets, which the Hanoi regime has sensibly avoided stamping out. The markets afford most Hanoi citizens a supplement to their meager official rations?but at a huge price. Fresh fish cost $1.77 a pound, while the average worker's salary amounts to only $30 a month...
...were mildly surprised at the candor of their hosts. Officials freely admit, for example, that bribery occurs within the Vietnamese bureaucracy, though they insist that corruption is "not common." In fact, it is very common indeed. An exit visa can be bought with $2,000 in gold, and the cost of other services varies accordingly...
...others. The union movement has lost touch with many rising forces in U.S. society. Feminists and civil rights leaders worry that seniority rules hinder the promotion of women and blacks; consumerists and ecologists find unions ranged against them out of fear that consumer-protection and environmental laws will cost workers jobs. Columbia University Industrial Relations Professor James Kuhn believes that to regain power, "labor needs the imagination to sit down and bargain with Ralph Nader's group and the Sierra Club environmentalists as well as with employers...
Some Jaycees worry that the organization's stand could cost it much of the financial support it has traditionally had from businesses. But unless the Jaycees' executive board overrules him, Pig Man Kennedy promises, chapters that keep their women will lose their charters. Says he: "Bylaws are bylaws...