Word: incurability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plus dollars they pay each year in road taxes, they have never paid, and barring some radical transformation, will probably never pay for the havoc they wreak on highways. At the present time, trucks over 75,000 lbs pay only 45 percent of the costs they incur, and the interstates are deteriorating at a rate 50 percent greater than anticipated due to huge increases in truck volume and weight. A study done by the Illinois Department of Transportation estimated that a 5 percent increase in gross and axle weights would produce damage by a single truck equivalent to that done...
During yesterday's meeting, Rosovsky emphasized that under the policy now being considered, non-registrants at Harvard would still incur a burden for their personal stands because they would not receive outright...
...resident students incur significantly higher housing costs than residents. And if they are unwilling to continue to pay rent during the summer months or endure the time-consuming bother of finding a suitable tenant to sublet, they face the thoroughly unpleasant task of searching each fall for new housing in the severely overextended Cambridge rental market...
...tamperproof manner. Attorneys who are expert in product-liability law think that Johnson & Johnson will be able to convince the courts that it could not have been expected to anticipate and guard against the acts of a putative madman. But they add that the company is likely to incur expenses running into the millions in defending itself...
...Israelis also find themselves in a difficult dilemma. Their attempt to deal a military blow to the P.L.O. may not bring a political solution to the aspirations of 4 million Palestinians any closer. If Israel annihilates the battle-hardened veterans of the P.L.O. by storming Beirut, it will incur the wrath of Washington but fail to extinguish the spirit of Palestinian nationalism. Yet if the Israelis withdraw from Beirut and grant the P.L.O. a face-saving retreat, they will forfeit the psychological benefits of the crushing victory that their government wanted as the main justification for the invasion...