Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been placed in college and business communities, with some reverting to their old ways. For these and other reasons, the Justice Department is just now thoroughly reviewing its $13 million Witness Security Program to see, in the words of Deputy Attorney General Peter Flaherty, "if it's cost-effective." In a book published this week, The Alias Program (Little, Brown; $8.95), CBS Legal Correspondent Fred Graham raises additional problems that should also be reviewed...
...payments, Stephanie has gone back to work as a receptionist in a suburban art gallery, putting in four hours in the evening when her husband can tend their 18-month-old son. "Some women I work with are not planning on having any children at all because of the cost of their new houses," Stephanie reports. "I think ours will be an only child for the same reason...
Rachelle Resnick, 27, a San Francisco school-bus driver, counts herself fortunate to have bought?with much help from her father?a two-bedroom house that she candidly describes as "a little nothing." It cost $48,500, and she will have to spend $5,000 or so to repair termite damage. But had she waited, it almost surely would have gone higher. The house sold in June 1976 for $28,000, and has since been resold four times by four separate speculators, none of whom lived...
Environmental regulations jack up the cost of preparing sites for building; in many places that expense is becoming as heavy a burden as the price of the raw land. George F. Schoeck, a bank executive in Morris County, N.J., gives this example: "A builder used to put in a 28-foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt...
...purchase of a new ambulance, which could cost the city as much as $50,000, is "a good investment," he added...