Word: costs
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...Navy maintains, however, that the builders share much of the blame for what it calls "cost growth." The admirals cite low worker productivity at the shipyards, long delays in deliveries from subcontractors and an uneconomical and unwise expansion of productive capacity. Nonetheless, Navy Secretary Claytor concedes that "there is enough blame for everyone concerned...
Also boosting the cost of warships, of course, have been the advanced weapons, data processing centers and more comfortable accommodations that have become standard on the vessels. In the case of submarines, part of the price hike is because of the replacement of diesel engines by nuclear generators...
...Administration on a matter so related to U.S. energy needs, because Saudi Arabia is involved, could cause severe and lasting damage to Jerusalem's relations with Washington. Some influential American Jews warned the Israeli government privately that it could probably win on this issue, but at a grave cost to its special relationship with...
...difficult to transfer the F-15s to other Arab states. The Saudis also insist they have no intention of basing the planes at their Tabuk airbase, which is only 125 miles from the Israeli port of Eilat. One reason is that the Saudis do not want the planes, which cost $16 million apiece, to be unnecessarily vulnerable to Israeli attack. (During the October War of 1973, the Saudis moved most of their combat planes away from bases near Israel...
Says Connecticut Democrat William Cotter, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax legislation: "This is the issue, inflation. I'm one of those who goes home every weekend, and I find that people are fearful. They tell me that hamburger cost $1.29 last week, and now it's $1.69." Adds Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman: "When people realize that every dollar of a tax cut is another dollar of deficit, and when they relate that to inflation, I think that by and large they would rather have less cuts and therefore less...