Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quell significant opposition. Republican Moderate Robert Griffin of Michigan, who has taken on the job of managing the opposition, denounced the treaties last week as "pregnant with the seeds of acrimony and strife ... fatally flawed and riddled with ambiguity." Senator John Stennis of Mississippi warned that the transfer would cost more than $1 billion. Reagan joined in with a nationwide TV address in which he claimed that the treaties might result in the loss "of our own freedom...
...women on welfare, the other legalized the use of the controversial drug Laetrile for the treatment of cancer. Both vetoes outraged Illinois conservatives, and may hamper Thompson's quest for the Republican presidential nomination. But he has no regrets: "I wouldn't compromise just because it might cost me votes in some conservative sections of the state...
More broadly, computers enable the patient to receive a health profile at far lower cost than previously possible; analyze vast amounts of blood; and, by systematizing information about the patient, cut down his hospital stay and pare both institutional and patient costs...
...home computer has until recently been largely the province of the hobbyist. With basic kits that can be bought for less than $100 (and can easily cost $5,000 or more when sophisticated widgets and gizmos are added), "home brewers," as they style themselves, have taught their devices a diversity of skills beyond the interests of the big computer companies...
...weighed, the computer reads the code on the plastic bag containing, say, a half-dozen Delicious apples, but delays ringing up the charge until the bag has been placed on the computer-connected check-out scale. Then, programmed with the price per lb., it calculates and prints out the cost; this largely eliminates the time-consuming process of clerkly computation...