Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catch the Yorkshire Ripper, police have mounted the biggest man hunt in British history; more than 300 officers are currently assigned full time to the investigation, which has already cost more than $5 million. Police are mystified by the gaps between the Ripper's murderous outbursts; more than a year elapsed between his third and fourth attacks. Psychologists have put together a profile suggesting that the killer is a powerfully built single white male, between 30 and 50 years old, who probably lives in West Yorkshire, alone or with his aged mother. An obvious psychopath, he may have developed...
SAFER: The problem is not a few cents more for gasoline. The higher cost of oil will drain an additional $35 billion a year from the world's purchasing power, and only about half of this will be recycled back in increased OPEC imports. Economic policy is virtually helpless confronting the simultaneous inflation and recessionary impact of this phenomenon...
...year and 350 in each of the next two years, bringing them up to $11.25 per hour in 1981. They will also get an additional $1.09 for benefits, like health insurance. Assuming an average inflation rate of 6% over the next three years, as the Administration optimistically does, the cost of living payment would add another 830 and bring the total wage and benefit increase for the contract to $3.42 an hour...
...this amount, 570 is not included in the guideline calculations because of various exemptions granted by the Administration. For example, since retirees have no voice in the ratification and are technically not part of the bargaining, the White House agreed to exclude the cost of increasing their pension benefits. If these exemptions were included, the wage-and-benefit boost would come...
...that, 220 in living-cost payments will be deferred until the three-year contract expires and thus will not be counted. If inflation over the next three years averages not 6% but 8.5%, as the companies and union predict, the increased cost of living payments will swell the settlement to 31.5%. The truckers quickly got permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise freight rates by up to 5.7%, and the industry will seek additional increases...