Word: priced
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...Congress and the public are increasingly vocal in their criticism of the size, influence and performance of the military and its industrial suppliers (TIME cover, April 11). Last week the tarnish on Pentagon brass spread even further with the disclosure that the Air Force had falsified reports about the price of the C-5A transport plane under production by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...billion, then raised it again to $3.4 billion to reflect a change in specifications. The actual cost has been nearly $1 billion more than the highest estimate. Yet Colonel Beckman said two of his civilian superiors in the Pentagon approved a juggling of the cost reports to protect the price of Lockheed's common stock. (One of the civilians resigned last year; the other is scheduled to leave Government service when his replacement is confirmed in the Senate...
...longer unusual to find a barber in Antibes or a salesgirl in Lyon who has visited the U.S. ?or anywhere else?as a tourist. Practically everyone, it seems, has made a summertime visit to the Spanish coast, where villas rent for a fraction of the price they command on the Riviera. Politics, which not so long ago determined whether fresh milk was available at the store, has become a subject of occasional levity. At Paris' Ca-veau de la République, a political cabaret near the Place de la République, performers last week managed to take the political...
...course Wolfe must pay a price for such dexterity. Since every character he recreates speaks with an equal force, the author's particular vantage point remains frustratingly ambiguous. In only one section of The Acid Test--a digression on the Rat aesthetic of the Southwest--does Wolfe permit himself to be unequivocally "satirical." Most of the time, he is simply too busy loving what he criticizes to be really vindictive...
...certain waywardness and windiness. Along with Toynbee's earlier book, Acquaintances, this one proposes to perform the office of autobiography. Too often it consists of lumbering opinions delivered ex one of the century's best-earned cathedras about everything from religion, war and death to "The Social Price of the New Technology of Farming in Iowa...