Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Price of Protest. Bukovsky, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for a demonstration in Pushkin Square on behalf of three other arrested writers, read at his trial sections from the Soviet constitution guaranteeing "freedom of demonstrations and gatherings on the street." By way of contrast, he pointed out that in the U.S., the Supreme Court had assured the right of Communists to peaceful dissent. "What the prosecutor would like to hear from me, he won't hear," said Bukovsky. "There is no criminal act in my case. I absolutely do not repent." Nonetheless, the Soviet press reported...
...publishing houses are state-owned). If he cooperates, he may win appointment to the board of a prestigious journal or get a luxury apartment in the Moscow suburbs. Though the regime has made dissent highly unprofitable, many of the younger writers still seem to feel that the price of resistance is indeed well worth paying...
...Percent. Rough, tough hockey has its price, and the Bruins have paid it-in injuries as well as penalties and fines. Defenseman Green missed two games with a badly bruised knee. Orr earlier this season had his nose broken twice within a week, and he was sidelined for half of December with a fractured collarbone. Both regular Boston goalies, Eddie Johnston and Gerry Cheevers, are laid up with injuries, and the Bruins had to make do last week with Andre Gill, a 5-ft. 7-in. 155-pounder who was hurriedly called up from the minors. Like everybody else...
...Price of Technology In 1846, Abraham Lincoln's friends raised a mere $200 to finance his race for Congress. After he won, Lincoln returned $199.25: he had canvassed the voters on his own horse and spent only 75?-to treat some farm hands to a barrel of cider. In 1860, Lincoln won the presidency without leaving Springfield or making a single speech; his entire national campaign cost $100,000-a sum now barely sufficient for one 30-minute national telecast...
...John Kennedy had traveled 44,000 miles and made 400-odd speeches in 45 states to win the White House, at a reported cost to his party of $11 million-excluding his own unreported costs. In 1964, total reported campaign costs were almost $50 million-more than double the price of 1952. On primaries alone, Loser Nelson Rockefeller personally shelled out nearly $5,000,000. The 1968 money competition may be fiercer. In the New Hampshire primary, presidential hopefuls may drop...