Word: kilograms
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Power companies are willing to pay a great deal for this service: the cost of the reprocessing of a single kilogram (2.25 lbs.) of uranium currently ranges between $350 and $450. Lately the French have signed cost-plus contracts with ten Japanese utilities to handle 1,600 tons of nuclear fuel over a ten-year period beginning in 1983; at current prices, that deal alone is worth at least $600 million...
...billion shuttle pro gram, required precise planning. For months, engineers from NASA and Rockwell International had been surveying the route to Edwards, relocating telephone poles and overseeing the resurfacing of 16 kilometers (10 miles) of gravel road so that it could withstand the shuttle's 68,000-kilogram (150,000-lb.) weight. They also constructed a special trailer to carry the craft, a 90-wheel affair designed to be steered both from the front and the rear like a hook-and-ladder truck...
...petroleum rates are significantly responsible for the current financial woes of the government-owned system. Reason: climbing prices for fuel oil and petroleum-based fertilizers have aggravated the worst inflation in the nation's modern history, 27% last year. In response to spiraling prices (the cost of a kilogram of wheat increased from 10? to 13? last month alone), railway workers are demanding a 75% wage boost; their pay now ranges from about $35 a month for unskilled laborers to $160 for engineers, roughly the prevailing scale for Indian industrial workers...
...Librium and Valium if they pay a royalty to the developing firm. The remedies have had some effect: after Berk Pharmaceuticals Ltd. came out with a copy of Valium called Atensine in 1971, Roche's British subsidiary cut its prices by 36%. Though the wholesale cost of a kilogram of Valium was lowered from about $5,000 to roughly $3,000, the government was not satisfied; late in the year it took a complaint to the U.K.'s Monopolies Commission...
...last year and this year's trade deficit is expected to surpass $500 million. Says one foreign economist in Santiago: "By July or August there will be some very hungry people in Chile." Says Allende: "There are higher values than a piece of meat or a kilogram of potatoes...