Word: expendability
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...Leahy denies the figure, launch customers such as Singapore Airlines, Virgin and Qantas are reportedly buying the A380 for as much as 40% off the original list price of $235 million--compared with $215 million for the biggest version of the 747. To recoup the $10.7 billion it will expend to birth the A380, Airbus must sell 250 of them in five years. "The company has an awful lot of eggs in that basket," says Paul Nisbet, an industry analyst at JSA Research in Newport, R.I. "The A380 will live or die on its own sales...
...Appeasing the Chinese” (Opinion, April 16). Apparently, George W. Bush is a coward for having the patience and humility to bring our boys back home safely with relatively little damage to Sino-American relations. Ross, on the other hand, is more than willing to expend other people’s lives to show those uppity Chinese who’s their daddy. If only the reigns of power were held by someone as brave as this Crimson columnist, then those Chinese wouldn’t be so cocky...
...turn, small departments often do not have the manpower to expend the time needed to make enough appointments to actually increase the size of the department...
...example, every time you have a conversation with a friend, you are exchanging conversational "services" for an important but immeasurable kind of mutual benefit. You expend some time and effort because you place more value on the joys of friendship than you place on the resultant time and energy lost. Similarly, in each and every case, those who exchange goods and services value the things they are receiving more than they value the things they are giving up. As a result, all parties are enriched as different kinds of property flow from those who value them less to those...
...three hours it takes to write this column. But now I see through their attempts to buy my soul's work through cheap trinkets like a corporate AmEx card and health benefits. Yes, we writers, we conjurers of phrases, we have been used like a...no, I will expend metaphors for the Man no longer. Not since I learned that the Writers Guild of America has issued a list of demands and will go on strike if they are not met. If they do, that means we'll all have to watch old stuff. Not remakes of old stuff...