Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frame house bracketed by vacant lots, gutted houses and apartment buildings. Albirtha has not held a job since 1968. One reason: her wage would be less than her $420.60 monthly welfare payment plus the $298.80 she receives in Social Security survivors' benefits?and she would have to pay the cost of a baby sitter besides. Says she: "It's no easy job just sitting here from one year to the next doing nothing...
...schooled middle-class youth at the expense of older workers. A better compromise, suggested by Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein, would be for the Government to subsidize minimum-wage payments to the youthful unemployed. Directed specifically to the underclass, the program would allow businessmen to pay a fraction of the cost for jobs that they might otherwise refuse to fill. Another wise Government investment would be to shift some federal funds to more and better mass transit, which, beyond all its benefits to the environment, would give the underclass access to all the new job opportunities in the suburbs...
...planes have unloaded about 700,000 gal. of phosphate flame retardant on the fire, at a cost of nearly $4 million. To plot where and when the flames will strike next, experts use airborne sensors that detect where the fire is burning fastest and computers that analyze information about terrain and weather forecasts. With no rain in sight, the battle is expected to continue for many more days...
...extensive than was previously known. In fact, former Israeli officials now disclose that Israel's assistance to Lebanon's embattled Christians during the long civil war amounted to $30 million to $35 million in direct aid, and perhaps as much as $100 million all told, including the cost of a naval blockade and air patrols along the Lebanese coast...
This month End of the World will come to 200 Southern and Midwestern theaters. The film tells of an earthling scientist who comes upon a band of aliens cleverly disguised as six nuns and a priest. Filmed in three weeks, the picture cost $500,000 (compared with Star Wars'$9.5 million). If the world survives this picture, End Producer Charles Band plans to return by Christmas with another quickie titled Laser Blast...