Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counterpoint, Representative Schulze claimed that the average cost of a business lunch in his district was $3.29 -just enough, as one committee observer estimated, for two Big Macs and a drink...
...borders. They also need additional bases simply to accommodate their air force, which is three times as large as it was in 1967. Some U.S. observers have suggested that Israel should be giving more thought to building additional fields within its own borders, but either way, the costs are enormous. To rebuild Etzion 25 to 40 miles to the northeast would cost at least $1 billion?a tab the Israelis would expect the U.S. to pick up as part of the peace package...
...department will select ten to 15 firms, probably auto-repair services, and subsidize their purchase of electric cars. Over the next three years, these companies will buy 2,500 electrics and possibly some hybrids (which switch over to gasoline engines for high-speed, long-distance driving). The cars should cost from $3,000 to $7,000, of which the Government will pay perhaps $1,000. The selected firms?there are already 49 applicants ?will sell or lease the cars to the public at discount prices. Drivers will register their impressions with the dealers, who will service the cars...
Beyond that, the Government has stepped up its annual research budget for electrics from $200,000 in the early 1970s to $35 million proposed for fiscal 1979, mostly to search for low-cost, lightweight, long-range batteries. All DOE will predict is that "there will be a significant number" of electrics around by the year 2000. Fill 'er up, sir? Naw, plug it again...
...Wyatt, vice president for administration, yesterday declined to estimate how much snow removal operations will cost the University