Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deposed him as chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, stripping him of all the perquisites that the post confers. In restoring him to Congress last week, the House deprived him of his seniority and meted out a $25,000 fine for his past sins as the price of forgiveness.* (He has already forfeited $55,000 in congressional pay.) The resolution gave him until Jan. 15 to decide whether to accept the terms...
That compound was put together in a brief burst of home-buying just before Christmas. Nixon first purchased a three-bedroom, three-bath house for $127,700, then bought an adjoining dwelling for a similar price from Senator George Smathers to create a three-house enclave. (Smathers, who introduced Nixon to Rebozo in the late '40s, says that he "didn't want to sell it but I wanted Nixon to come here, and it was a case of having to sell it or else he wouldn't have come...
Merit Alone. The price, of course, has been high. Since 1961, close to half a million Cubans have left their homeland, driven away by material deprivation, political indoctrination and limitations on personal freedom. More than 300,000 of them have come to the U.S., and fully loaded shuttle flights of gusanos (worms), Castro's derisive description of the refugees, continue twice a day, five days a week...
...Harrington & Richardson $250, even while Colt was offering it for $104. Moreover, the Army had rejected yet another bid, by the Maremont Corp., that would have saved $20 million. Rothberg's stories touched off congressional probes and led to a law requiring the Army to consider price in contract awards...
Furthermore, if you don't believe it is difficult--indeed if you don't care enough to show that it is difficult for you--there will be a price to pay. For nothing nourishes nihilism on the left more than the faithlessness of liberals to their own values. If those worn inflexible responses are all you have to back up your values, if that is your liberal university, then we may as well tear the place down. For in that case your language is the valueless language of S.I. Hayakawa (lately active at San Francisco State), and your future...