Word: outlay
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Economic pressures are also building in West Pakistan. So far, the Islamabad regime has been able to muddle through fairly well. The real crunch will come in a few months. Pakistan is spending almost 55% of its fiscal outlay on defense, and the cost of military operations in the East alone runs to $60 million a month. One observer estimates that the 3,000-mile route around India that Pakistani planes must take to supply forces in the East is the equivalent of a supply line from Karachi to Rome...
...reason that Congress is likely to act is that campaign costs have soared out of control. In 1968, some $300 million was spent on campaigning for all offices-federal, state and local. The cost is bound to be even greater in 1972. The major outlay is for television: a 60-second spot, a favorite of candidates in 1968, costs almost $50,000 in prime time. But there are other expensive items that have been added to the well-stocked campaign: computer data banks with voter profiles, professional pollsters, $500-a-day political consultants...
...raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in California for Nixon, Ronald Reagan and the G.O.P. since 1966, declared that he was changing candidates because he believes Muskie has "character" and Nixon does not. EUGENE MCCARTHY. In 1968 Clean Gene led the list of preconvention spenders with an $11 million outlay. He may not have that much this time round, but neither is he in financial trouble. Harvard Professor Martin Peretz, who gave McCarthy $100,000 to run last time, is one of about 20 contributors who have already put up $200,000 for another campaign. Peretz, whose wife...
...does not need a legal document to make it live." Plainly, the U.S. is edgy because Moscow has become India's chief armorer and the most influential foreign power in New Delhi-despite $9 billion in American aid over the past two decades, roughly six times the Soviet outlay...
...angry Arab nationalists, even from Saudi Arabia, on the sly. Today the boycott costs Israel up to $10 million a year, paid out in commissions to middlemen representing firms that will not deal directly with Israel. But that figure is hardly significant compared with Israel's annual outlay of $1.7 billion for imports...