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...York's Manufacturers Hanover, for instance, figures the initial expense at $3 million. Smaller banks, which have fought the hardest for repeal, say their cost per account would be higher because they have fewer depositors to share the expenses. Bankers contend that only a fraction of the outlay can be recovered on the "float," the interest banks can collect on withheld funds before the money is passed along...
...loan of that amount to the Rouse Company of Columbia, for the acquisition and rehabilitation of New Haven's Chapel Square Mall. Although interest on the loan is slightly below the current market rate, the University will receive a percentess of the mall's operating profits for its outlay, according to a project report released by Rouse...
...hunting tanks, five times as many A-10 planes could be bought for the same money as F-15Es. For ground-to-air defense, the same outlay would buy 30 Oerlikon 35-mm guns for every DIVAD, the new and troubled computer-guided artillery. For antitank warfare, 30 times as many 106-mm recoilless rifles could be bought as TOW missiles. A comparison of antitank ammunition shows that the unproven Maverick, an air-to-ground missile with heat-seeking sensors, is 75 times as expensive as reliable 30-mm shells...
...almost as if all the campaigning, speechmaking and handshaking had never occurred, and those thousands of cloying or clawing television commercials and bumper stickers had never appeared. After an estimated outlay of some $130 million by Republican and Democratic candidates, the lineup of the Senate had not changed a bit. The breakdown remained 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats. The G.O.P. had feared that it might lose the chamber it had seized in 1980, or at least see its margin over the Democrats narrowed. "Needless to say," said Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
Uncontrolled medical costs are like an illness that infects prices everywhere. General Motors spent an average of $3,270 per employee in health insurance premiums last year, or double the 1976 outlay. GM estimates that its health-care bill added about $370 to the cost of producing...