Word: costs
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...popular week for boycotts. The Faculty Council Wednesday considered possible guidelines for University policy on student consumer boycotts. The guidelines would force the University to stop purchasing a product if a "substantial number" of users boycott the product, and if the University can find a substitute at no extra cost...
...clarifications ask the CCR to eliminate consideration of extra cost in the decision to boycott a product...
Carter mistakenly sees decontrol as an end in itself, rather than as a starting point for a broader energy policy. Convinced of the merits of decontrol, Carter did not link decontrol and his windfall profits tax; this may cost consumers $32 billion over the next two years, while producing only limited energy savings. Under a comprehensive windfall profits tax, that money could go to relief for the poor, funding for new energy programs and--for those profits oil companies would be allowed to retain--investment in domestic oil production. Carter's proposed tax, however, is much too weak, providing insufficient...
...costs of decontrol far outweigh its minimal benefits. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that it will cost consumers a staggering $16 billion annually in higher prices, not to speak of a higher rate of inflation throughout the economy. And the distribution of this cost will fall most heavily on the elderly and the poor, who spend a greater proportion of their income on fuel...
Kipp said if he approves the recommendation, work will begin this summer at an estimated cost of $50,000, depending on the amount of floor space to be carpeted...