Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was just one of the many problems this winter. Snow removal, which cost $90,000 this year--almost twice the normal budget for keeping the University lots clean--put a severe cramp in the budget...
...area. For undergraduates, this can mean inconvenience and high expense, although security improvements have made parking at Harvard much safer. But it's something to think about before your bring that little sports car up to Cambridge, and that's exactly the way the University wants it. A little cost-benefit analysis is definitely in order...
Meanwhile, despite the focusing of political debate on the cultural question, the issue of the economic cost of independence will in all likelihood continue to be decisive. All the polls taken since the P.Q.'s election demonstrate a far higher degree of support for formal independence with close Canadian economic ties and few economic risks, than for a complete break with Canada...
...well in Quebec, although it is not clear that independence of the P.Q. variety will in fact offer any substantive advantages to French Canadians that could not be obtained within the present federal system. Against the potential benefit arising from independence must be pitted the question of economic cost. That question has already received the bulk of Quebec's attention precisely because the substantive benefits of independence are far from clear. Unless these benefits can be clarified, it is doubtful that the independentists will win their bid for formal autonomy...
...standard target of liberal Democrats is the defense budget, which has leaped from $74.5 billion in fiscal 1973 to $117.8 billion budgeted for fiscal 1979, largely because of increased personnel costs. A presidential panel last week recommended reform of exorbitant military pensions. Now, a 20-year veteran can retire at 37 and draw a full pension for the rest of his life. Thomas V. Jones, chairman of Northrop, a major defense contractor, charges that the Pentagon and its suppliers have come to accept cost overruns as a way of life. He urges that the Defense Department sign fixed-price contracts...