Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delighted with their new gadget, which they bought after reading reports that their Hong Kong colleagues had used it successfully in riot control. It is cheap and effective: each shell costs only $7.50. Four were fired at the Fourth of July crowd, dispersing it immediately for a total outlay of $30. "In the past," says Lieut. Ralph Schillinger, "we have fired as much as $6,000 worth of tear gas in one day and still not stopped a riot." The plugs have one other advantage over tear-gas canisters. They are too light to cause any injury to police...
Federal Government is funneling a record $268 million to local lawmen this year?four times last year's outlay. More controversially, Congress and state legislatures are considering measures that would allow police to expand wiretapping and enter suspicious dwellings without knocking. In most areas, public opinion has seldom been so pro-cop. A recent Gallup poll revealed that a majority of Americans view crime control as their No. 1 priority, and even longtime dissenters are beginning to have second thoughts. Though many radicals still think of police as "pigs"?with some justification in a number of cities ?liberals...
Neither resolution will entail a major outlay of capital as other resolutions might have nor will they restrict the scope of GM's present or future activities...
...international development bank, which would have $4 billion in capital and borrowing authority, and a technical-aid institute initially authorized at $1 billion. It would also double the current U.S. annual contribution of $500 million to the World Bank and other international aid institutions. The total outlay of federal funds for foreign economic aid would not necessarily increase at once, but the level of lending would be determined by the U.S. development bank rather than by Congress...