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Power companies are willing to pay a great deal for this service: the cost of the reprocessing of a single kilogram (2.25 lbs.) of uranium currently ranges between $350 and $450. Lately the French have signed cost-plus contracts with ten Japanese utilities to handle 1,600 tons of nuclear fuel over a ten-year period beginning in 1983; at current prices, that deal alone is worth at least $600 million...
...jade; Emperors decreed their exclusive right to it. Now others have caught the fever: travelers, especially the Japanese and Americans, scour the jade markets in Hong Kong, Asia's jade capital, for items ranging from simple stones or carvings that sell for $20 to exquisite rings that can cost $120,000. Hong Kong's jade traffic increased sharply in 1977, with sales reaching into hundreds of millions of dollars...
Attendance at Yale's summer session had declined for the past three years. Officials cited the high cost of tuition and declining student interest as reasons for falling profits...
Tribe said yesterday he had warned his class not to buy the book for the exam. "Because of its length and cost I couldn't expect them to read it," Tribe said. He added there was enough pressure on the students without having to read the book...
...Indonesia and Venezuela, badly in need of more oil income to pay for instant industrialization projects, were making weak requests for an increase of 5% or so. They argued that a boost was needed to make up for worldwide inflation and the dropping value of the dollar, which has cost them 20¢ per bbl. this year...