Word: costs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Subramanian estimated the B-52's concert would cost $25,000--approximately $10,000 more than the second offer by Squeeze...
...House bill provides for a 7.9 percent cost-of-living hike by January. On Jan. 1, 1991, a 25 percent raise would be given--on top of whatever cost-of-living increase is given to rank-and-file civil servants at that time...
Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the election...
...little when their store shelves are empty and their restive nationalities are in turmoil. Last week alone Gorbachev got several doses of new trouble. Coal miners in Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle, struck in defiance of legislation that makes such walkouts illegal. Coal strikes earlier this year have cost the Soviet Union an estimated $4.7 billion of lost production that will be missed as the bitter winter nears. That some hard-liners would like to crack down on the internal unrest was demonstrated last week, when thousands of people held a candlelight vigil outside the Moscow headquarters...
Lately cocaine prices have increased in a few cities, but experts on both sides of the law see no close connection between enforcement efforts and price levels. In Miami, the main gateway for drug smuggling, the cost of a kilo has jumped 44% in the past two months, to as much as $23,000. But for the U.S. as a whole, which consumes three-fourths of the world's cocaine production, wholesale and retail prices have been stable...