Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most telling arguments against the B-1 was the enormous projected cost-$24 billion for 244 planes but a total of nearly $100 billion when the price of its nuclear armaments, operating costs over 20 years and inflation were included. A day after Carter's announcement, Brown told a news conference that the B-1 would have been a more attractive option if it had been 30% cheaper...
...proponents give their plane a clear edge in cost effectiveness and contend that it can hold its own-or better -in terms of offensive capability. They point out that both planes will be able to penetrate Soviet defenses well into the 1980s. But even among B-52 proponents, there is some concern whether the old bird can remain aloft for another couple of decades...
...into selling roadside peanuts to Plains tourists." Farmers in every county, including Tom Chandler, Billy Carter's partner in several peanut deals, are collecting one dollar for every acre of peanut land so they can hire an airplane for a month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week the chairman of the fund-raising committee. Bill Whitaker, wrote Actor Burt Lancaster, reminding him that he had once starred in a movie called The Rainmaker (1956) and asking him to help "the farmers who grow these suffering crops...
...ignore the three dunning letters addressed to his wife by the state's department of transportation. Carline Toner was killed last October when her car collided with a garbage truck, and now the state, having determined that she was to blame, was demanding $34.15 to cover the cost of cleaning up the highway. When her widowed husband failed to reply, the state filed suit against Mrs. Toner in Windsor's small claims court. With that Donald Toner asked Attorney James Throwe to fight the claim-and Throwe simply released the story of the suit to the local papers...
...boost was part of a compromise to mend the schism. For their part, the Saudis and the Emirates will boost their prices to the general OPEC level (whether all at once or in stages still was not clear at week's end). Though that means oil will cost more in the second half of this year than in the first, the winners were clearly the Saudis-and to some extent consumers. The Saudis are fond of pointing out that if everybody settles now at 10%, the price of Middle East oil for the full year will average lower than...