Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week President Carter selected the most symbolic-if least utilitarian-present Brezhnev has yet received from his American counterparts: a pair of porcelain "Doves of Peace." The sculpture, made by the New Jersey studio, Cybis, ordinarily would cost $3,500 to $4,000, but this was a special and more costly design; the turtledoves were passing an olive branch from one to the other. Brezhnev's 'return gift to Carter? A surprise, said the secretive Soviets. And so it remained as the meetings began...
...International reconciliation depends on recognition of and respect for the rights of each nation. The chief rights are the rights to existence and self-determination - to its own culture and the many forms of developing it. We know from our own country's history what has been the cost to us of infraction, violation and denial of these inalienable rights...
...year-old. Since taking office, the Pope has suffered from a lack of his customary exercise and reportedly has dropped about 15 Ibs. due to overwork. He is installing an 83-ft. swimming pool at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer retreat. When a French cleric injudiciously remarked on the cost, the Pope was quick to reply, "It's less expensive than having another conclave...
...against inflation, are fighting the wrong battle. We are told over and over again that the only cure for inflation is recession. I don't buy that. It's akin to cutting the head off when only a haircut is needed. You hold down the cost of living not by lengthening unemployment lines but by producing more goods and services more cheaply...
...curiouser and curiouser, and even the knaves have to run faster to keep up, Alice Rivlin is the self-professed "official purveyor of bad news to the Congress." As head of the Congressional Budget Office, she and her 200-person staff figure out what proposed programs will really cost, and her cool counsel has stopped many of them in the gleam-in-the-eye stage...