Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision against artificial contraception was "the result of a disagreement over the means" of population control that "cost the Pope a lot of support, and cost the Church in terms of adherence, in terms of people who remained active and faithful," he said...
...Hospital cost containment. Gutted...
...nation's many special-interest groups, is often mutually beneficial, and perhaps indispensable, to the fullest workings of democracy. The increasingly knowledgeable and competent Washington lobbyist supplies a practical knowledge vital to the writing of workable laws. He does it at no public expense?and at only the cost of being sure his own interests get the fullest of hearings. All in all, that may not be a bad bargain, but it does represent a major change in the way the Government goes about the difficult task of trying to balance competing interests against the Constitution's demand to "promote...
...Beirut to Damascus, Syrian soldiers can be found, manning big guns and tanks by day, huddling beside tents and fires by night. "Lebanon is a thankless, difficult, lonely task," says one high-ranking Damascus official. No one knows that better than Assad's 30,000 troops, who at a cost of $3 million a day provide the bulwark of the Arab peace-keeping force inside Lebanon. In a land where there are more guns than people, violence and bloodshed are always near, ambush and assassination everyday occurrences. But without the Syrian presence the violence would, in all likelihood, be even...
...Europe, where the dollar's gyrations last winter and spring cost the U.S. Treasury some $3 billion in support operations, the greenback was already so grossly undervalued against the West German mark that the exchange rate remained relatively stable at about 2.04 to the dollar. But the value of the Swiss franc rose to an alltime high of 1.75, and the price of gold surged to a record $201 an ounce on frantic trading in both London and Zurich...