Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national health insurance, for years his principal issue, Kennedy has dramatically revamped his tactics. His initial proposal called for expenditures of $130 billion; the new cost figure is all the way down to $29 billion and now heavily engages the private sector instead of passing the funds through Social Security...
...attempts at neutrality have worked reasonably well, but at quite a price. The growing warfare has caused Botswana to create its own 2,000-man defense force; the $25 million start-up cost is a heavy burden for a nation whose total population is a mere 780,000. Last year, in the most serious incident to date, a band of Rhodesian government commandos opened fire on a Botswana army convoy and killed 15 recruits; they were the first Botswanan soldiers ever to die in an African war. The incident set off a wave of anger throughout the country. Last month...
...secretive about the way Speak & Spell works that competitors are buying the toy just to smash it and recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning...
...establish a fund to be held in escrow until the University adopts a policy of total divestiture. I am sure that those of us who oppose the University's current investment policy would gladly contribute to such a fund, for the greater its success the greater embarrassment and cost to the University. I can see the headlines now: "Harvard Still Ineligible for $3,000,000 Fund." David Aronson...
Young successful couples throw themselves into town-house renovations in the East 90s only to discover that the strain and the cost drive them to separation...