Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Laetrile doesn't work." But backers put their faith in tales of miracle apricot-pit cures and refuse to be dissuaded. Many are impatient with the pace of cancer research and suspect that doctors and the drug industry are more interested in profits than cures. The median cost of conventional cancer treatment, including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, is about $19,000 per patient; Laetrile goes for $1 a capsule and about $10 a shot...
...plan took almost no notice of long-term measures to equalize the quality of all University housing. Rosovsky and Fox dismissed one such proposal, that of remodeling the Yard dorms into Houses and establishing four-year Houses throughout the College as being too expensive. Although he placed the cost of this alternative at $15 to $30 million, the Task Force on College Life predicted the price tag at $6 to $10 million. Whatever the cost, the figure, though high in absolute terms, will be low in comparison to the $30 million the University plans to raise for the expanded Soldiers...
Goyette said the cost of moving the Prince House will be "in the $50,000 range...
...housing plan with CHUL, he suggested that the Union might be opened on weekends to ease over-crowding in River House dining halls then. Although he mentioned then that this move would require curtailing other services, he did not mention what he eventually decided to implement as a cost-cutter--his limited breakfast plan...
...became clear last summer, however, that the University's first priority was to escape the cost of the benefits by offering unattractive late-night and part-time work. Last summer, when six College Dining Hall employees refused temporary jobs, the University denied them the unemployment benefits they had received in the past. The six workers have since made three appeals to the Massachusetts Employment Security Division (MESD) in an attempt to force Harvard to pay the denied benefits...