Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...internal security. The most oppressive exploiter of the farmer is Bangkok itself, which by government decree keeps the rice price paid to the farmer well below world levels. The "rice premium" has been a favorite tool of Thailand's military rulers. By lowering the urban consumer's cost of living, the Premier has ensured political stability in Bangkok...
...craft's appeal is obvious. Windsurf boards cost considerably less and are more portable and easier to maintain than most sailboats. They are as safe as surfboards: since the foam-filled board stops dead and floats when a sailor drops his mast in the water, the Coast Guard has exempted the craft from its usual life-vest requirement. Many lifeguards, in fact, are using the boards as lifesaving and rescue crafts...
...Boeing and General Dynamics, the flyoffs payoff is huge. Each ALCM is estimated to cost only $1 million (vs. $5.8 million for a submarine's Trident I ICBM). However, the Pentagon plans to order 3,000, making the prime contractor's share about $2 billion. By early next year, the contest results are to be announced and the first ALCM-armed B-52 could enter the bomber fleet by December...
Even if Congress rejects some parts of Jimmy Carter's ambitious new design, the rising price of petroleum seems destined to awaken the nation from its energy stupor. As the cost of crude climbs, more and more technologies-some of them new and exotic, others as familiar as moonshine stills and windjammer sailing ships-are beginning to come on stream to conserve fuel and produce energy for the 1980s from unconventional sources. Clever inventors and canny investors see prospects of becoming instant energy millionaires. Long stagnant industries such as coal and steel stand to recover and prosper. Resource-rich...
Some railroad towns also would surge. For example, the population of Alliance, Neb., has jumped from 7,000 to 12,000 since 1976 because of increased traffic on the Burlington Northern. All across the country, railroads would need to upgrade their aging roadbeds, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, to handle the huge new volumes of coal and other freight. The entire construction effort, says Economist Alan Greenspan, would be rather like building a new Saudi Arabia in the middle...