Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these attitudes are changing. As the cost of the fertilizers needed to boost yields for such crops soars prohibitively, and as other resources become scarcer, experts have pressed the search for cheaper, easier-to-raise alternatives. In this hunt, many other plants are being rediscovered. Among them: the Mexican leucaena tree (as a forage for cattle), the jojoba bean (for its oil) and the Southwest's weedlike guayule (as a source of natural rubber...
...Either through pressure or undetermined factors-the cause is still disputed -the cornea does seem to flatten out. After about six weeks the cornea's new curvature is measured, and new contact lenses prescribed, usually with a flatter curve. During the therapy, which can last two years and cost $1,500 and up, the patient may be obliged to wear more than half a dozen pairs of lenses. When the optimal curvature and vision are reached, the patient is assigned the final minimum prescription lenses, which are worn at night or perhaps only a few hours...
...behind Mary's throne is Edythe Harrison, the iron-willed president of V.O.A. A self-proclaimed promoter, she hounded-among others-her next-door neighbor Norfolk Mayor Vincent Thomas for support; the city finally built an orchestra pit in the Center Theater and refurbished it (at a combined cost of $100,000). She even, so the story goes, got a little help on the side from the Navy in transporting the Scottish Opera's ornate costumes from Scotland to Norfolk...
...Those costs will be enormous, particularly in the West, where utilities rely heavily on oil-and gas-fired plants. Nationwide, Chase Econometrics calculates that by 1985 the total cost of converting old oil-or gas-burning plants might reach $60 billion. That figure does not include the cost of constructing new coal-fired plants, since many of those factories would have to be built anyway, whatever fuel was used to power them-but the cost will nonetheless be huge...
Much of the expenditure will have to go for pollution-control equipment, which can add anywhere from 15% to 40% to the construction and operating costs of a coal-fired plant. Yet no matter how much money is spent, a study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare warns, burning coal on the scale that Carter contemplates will make the air dirtier. HEW officials think the danger can be kept to a minimum by strict adherence to federal clean-air, safety and waste-disposal standards, but concern persists-with reason. Reacting to it, Washington is virtually certain to require...