Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better suited to implement certain programs than is the federal government. But it does not necessarily follow that $12.4 billion is a fair level of funding for all of community development in the United States when a single program for a missile of dubious value--the MX--may cost as much as $35-40 billion. Neither does it follow that revenue sharing means the federal government can't make any attempt to coordinate urban policy in a comprehensive...
FACT: The cost of the existing stockpile of weapons in the world is estimated at more than twice the value of the capital stock in all manufacturing industry in the United States...
...American employees within the next year, because of competition from imports, and transfer much of its color-set production to Taiwan and Mexico. Responding to complaints from U.S. steelmakers, the Treasury Department accused five Japanese firms of "dumping" steel plate-that is, selling the product below cost in the U.S. The companies must post $50 million in bonds to cover the cost of penalty duties that might be imposed later by the Treasury...
...million-ton iceberg off Antarctica,* wrap it in sailcloth and plastic to slow its melting, and then use powerful tugboats to tow it to the Arabian peninsula, where it would supply enormous quantities of drinking water. The journey would take about eight months and the project would cost around $100 million, according to estimates...
...very well might be worth it. Even if the mile-long iceberg lost as much as 20% of its mass en route, it could be melted down and its water made available at a cost of 500 to 600 a cubic meter (about 35 cu. ft.), well under the 80? it now costs to desalinate a cubic meter of water...