Word: costs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...essential weakness in this book is Bourke's limited research and biased bibliography. Her argument feels hollow and lopsided; her sources are undeniably selective and incomplete. Bourke ignores important studies that inconveniently contradict her assertions. Dave Grossman, in his Pulitzer Prize-nominated study, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, argues that most soldiers try to avoid killing and, when forced to kill, experience stages of thrill, remorse and rationalization. Bourke focuses on only one of these stages of emotion, thrill, ignoring the others. Similarly, she completely neglects John Keegan's The Face...
...students are selected to submit a secondary application, they are faced with another fee, which could range from $40 to $95. This additional cost infuriates many applicants, who say the secondary form rarely asks for more information than the preliminary application...
...remembers it vividly. "Logging on at 300 baud in 1982, when it cost $6-24 an hour." He laughs at our reaction. "Yeah, my parents were not happy with their credit card bill...
...Kremer Design," an elite Boston advertising firm. Undoubtedly a fancy copy-writing firm supplied the text, which is predictably self-aggrandizing. From my experience working in the Internet design industry, I can estimate that the professional design, photography and copy-writing services for a project of this size would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Add the time library administrators spent on the project, and the costs of printing, delivering, and stuffing each of the 6,000-plus folders with 17 separate pamphlets and cases, and the project cost could creep toward $100,000. A "Compliments of Harvard College Library...
...need, or we have been caught up in the larger politics of fundraising. In the former case, the library need only approach its many student librarians with a few well designed questions, and next time students might receive a guide of real value (for a tenth of the project cost...