Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions kept coming through the long Saturday afternoon, cogent and corny, pungent and piquant. Some dealt with matters as personal as the cost of spectacles, a burial site, a veteran's benefits denied; others with issues of national debate and world policy...
...Thirty-three round-trips home each year at public expense, plus a minimum of $2,250 or 10% of the total cost...
...police the 2.2 million sq. mi. added to U.S. fishing waters-a fourfold increase in the area covered by the old law-the Coast Guard plans to add four planes, five helicopters and six ships, at a total cost of $90 million...
...expand overseas. Like other dome makers, the company sells mostly to people who intend to use them as primary, year-round homes. Since a competent handyman can erect a house himself, with muscle power from family and friends, a spacious, three-bedroom dome built from a kit can cost as little as $25,000 (not including land...
...find itself in the ironic position of having to rely increasingly on the conservative strategy of holding down inflation by restricting the money supply. Healey, in fact, has already said as much, arguing that "wages can only rise above the level permitted by the supply of money at the cost of throwing people out of work." Or as Callaghan has put it, "The choice this year is a slight decrease in our living standard or a large increase in unemployment." Unfortunately, there is little sign that workers are getting the message...