Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow start cost Harvard Wednesday's game against Adelphi, a small college meanie the Crimson whipped in 1976, 11-9. Before Gordie Nelson got the stickmen their second tally of the day only minutes before the half, Harvard had been outscored...
...stirred up anti-Indian hostility. "We are bitter," says George Benway, chairman of the selectmen of Mashpee, Mass., one besieged town on Cape Cod. In a combative spirit sardonically known as "whitelash," the Town of Mashpee has filed a countersuit against the Wampanoag tribe -demanding $200 million as the cost of all accrued improvements'if the Wampanoags should win their claim to much of the town's property...
...During the first 21 months of recovery, until last December, business investment adjusted for inflation rose at a paltry average annual rate of 3%, only about a fifth the rate during the same stage of previous recoveries. The shortfall, figures J. Stanford Smith, chairman of International Paper Co., has cost the nation 400,000 jobs that would have been created if investment had risen as rapidly as in past rebounds. Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, complains that businessmen seem to have no "animal spirit...
...will recommend, no one can judge the program's adequacy. But the portents are not favorable. The idea of keeping a "cap" on prices is unwise. It would interfere with what should be a prime goal of decontrol: letting the market adjust prices so that a B.T.U.* would cost roughly the same whether it was produced by burning oil, gas, coal or whatever. Only in that way can the U.S. get the most efficient use of fuels...
...simple," and Jones leaped to the conclusion that the portrayal would deny Christ's divine nature. Without seeing the film, he denounced it as "blasphemy." Others picked up the cry, and soon 18,000 angry letters descended on General Motors, which had put up $3 million toward the cost of the film. The auto company backed out of sponsorship, sacrificing its investment. Said Lord Grade dryly: "General Motors found the program so sensitive and beautiful that they think it would be wrong for a commercial company to take advantage...