Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate liberals won a skirmish, but they may have lost the war. Long, so far, seems to have had his way. Unless his conference committee colleagues knock out his rebate plan, Jimmy Carter's scheme to return the added cost of energy to consumers, not to the oil companies, will be d-a-i-d, dead...
Phase I of the drive encompasses construction of a swimming pool, track, tennis, and women's locker facilities. The estimated cost of construction and endowment for this phase is $17 million...
...these arguments do not even consider the enormous cost involved. With a price tag of $30-$40 billion, the MX would be the most expensive U.S. strategic weapons system ever. For the same caust we could produce literally thousands of cruise missiles; for slightly more than half that sum we could manufacture 13 trident submarines equipped with over 300 ballistic missiles...
...COST AND QUESTIONABLE value of the MX, however, do not describe all that is irksome about the missile. While the MX would be clothed in the rhetoric of limited counter-force and deterrence, it would bring the U.S. capabilities closer to launching a first-strike against the Soviet Union than they have ever been. At least in part, current Soviet programs of escalation constitute a reaction to American development of new multiple, independently-targeted re-entry vehicles, to breakthroughs in missile accuracy, and to the development of the cruise missile. Adding the MX to our arsenal could only heighten Soviet...
...there was an overall pattern of increasing crime around the University, we would consider hiring more men, but right now that has not shown itself to be the case," he said. "To carry additional weight which would necessitate additional cost would not be good management," he added...