Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because he was going along. After threatening to veto big spending bills, he compromised more than people thought he would. He reached agreement with Congress on a raise in the minimum wage, from $2.30 an hour to $2.65 an hour, and on a farm price-support bill that may cost $4 billion this year instead of his original limit of $2.3 billion. Says O'Neill: "Carter's people came down here with a chip on their shoulder against Congress. Carter thought Congress was like the rednecks of the Georgia legislature." Now O'Neill feels that...
Some 32 million people will receive welfare payments or credits under the Carter plan, or 2 million more than at present. The cost to the Federal Government will increase by at least $2.8 billion a year, to around $30.7 billion. At first the President insisted that welfare reform not cost any more than the current system. But he was forced to give way, as the price of change...
...plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga for an audience that included Navy Secretary W. Graham Claytor and Budget Director Bert Lance. Financial losses on the Hawk-er-Siddeley planes, which now cost $3.4 million each, so far have totaled $60 million...
Already the obstinate drought has wrought profound changes in the lives of residents of the still-seared areas. The cost to Colorado's agricultural industry has risen to more than $300 million, and many towns have introduced water rationing. Denver officials have rigidly restricted lawn watering to three hours every third day by threatening violators with fines. Water consumption in June and July dropped 28% from a prior five-year average for the same period. Typically, Denver Lawyer Tim Segar says he and his wife spurn dinner parties because it is their sprinkler night: "Friends also...
...courses, which can cost up to $5,000, have produced more levity than levitation-so much so, in fact, that the Maharishi's movement could be laughed out of existence. But the 450 "executive governors" who teach the Siddhis remain undaunted and seem grimly determined to spread the new (and expensive) gospel. As Baltimore Lawyer and TM Teacher David Sykes, 28, explains it, levitation comes in three stages-hopping, or lifting off the ground a foot or two; then floating or hovering; and last, "actual mastery of the sky, flying at will." Adds Rashi Glazer, 27, a New Yorker...