Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bolles pointed out that the Corporation was primarily concerned not with the total cost, but with the "net cost" of the athletic budget which must come from general University funds...
...Corporation has agreed to assume a "net cost" of $713,000 out of a total HAA budget of about $1.3 million. This represents a small cut of $11,000 from last year's share of athletic expenses...
Brazil had little to lose in the try. Roughly equal in size to the U.S., it was still a poor, nonindustrial, coffee-based country after World War II. Now Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even a $100 million new capital in the interior-Brasilia-that focuses the nation's eyes on the untapped west. Along with this public investment, a private industrial giant has grown up at the lively pace of the sambas that are played in some factories to keep production hopping. Samples...
...will of English-born Doggerelist Robert W. Service, dead at 85 last year in Monte Carlo, disclosed last week that in succumbing to The Spell of the Yukon (published in 1907), Service successfully mined a heap of gold with his pen. His net estate...
...since 1930, he notes, the comparable costs to a college have risen to $500-requiring a $400 subsidy a year for the average student. At the same time, family income after taxes has risen by $3,000. If tuitions are scaled accordingly-and scholarships are also expanded-the net income from higher tuition could be about $2.5 billion yearly...