Word: incurring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more disagreement in American policymaking. If the Federal Reserve is not condemned by the AFL-CIO's George Meany for causing unemployment by being too stingy, it is certain to be damned by Economist Milton Friedman for spurring inflation by being too generous. All too often it will simultaneously incur the wrath of liberals and conservatives...
...support. Even those who do not consider themselves feminists are unwilling to accept unequal treatment under the law and more and more will fight all discrimination against them. The banker who refuses mortgages to women or the businessman who consistently rejects women who apply for management jobs stands to incur not only women's wrath but also a lawsuit...
...budget-conscious University police administration has hired no new officers, and the size of the force has declined by attrition to a point where officers complain that they cannot adequately patrol their beats. The police administration should seriously consider hiring more officers, despite the added expense this might incur. Personal safety is too vital to be sacrificed, either to student carelessness or to an ill-conceived bureaucratic concern for cost-cutting...
...necessary superiority to attack the U.S. Instead the crucial question, he says, is where they might attack. And he is convincing in his explanation that it is not our cities, but our weapons, that would be their first target--in an attempt to limit the damage the aggressor would incur in a retaliatory strike...
...budget movie crew arrives. It is not uncommon for the movie company and crew to spend more than $1 million on lodging, food, props, local extras and other labor. That sum generates nearly four times as much spending power as it percolates through the local economy-and the hosts incur few offsetting expenses. Says Ray Gosnell, vice president for production management at 20th Century-Fox: "There is no need to build roads or schools for us as the case would be if a factory came into the state. We spend a substantial amount of money in a short period...