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That was then and this is now. In the meantime, Challenger exploded, Hubble blurred, and the prospective space station ballooned to a Tinkertoy-looking assemblage bigger than a football field with a price tag of $38 billion, which would require 3,700 hours a year of dangerous spacewalking to maintain. Recently NASA scaled back the space station, shaving, it said, about $8 billion off the cost, but the General Accounting Office pegged the price of this new space station at $40 billion. The long-term cost, the GAO said, could amount to $118 billion, which puts the station...
...plan, which Cambridge's bridge watchers strongly back, comes with a hefty $840 million price tag--almost twice the twice the price of Scheme Z. And when the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) agreed last month to fund 90 percent of the Central Artery project, it did not necessarily agree to foot a higher bill for an improved bridge...
...described by admissions offices. Most students seemed more concerned with weekend parties than with their courses or reading. To them, college was a place to get away from the restraints or parents, to go wild and to study a little on the side--never mind the $24,000 price tag...
...TAG LINES. Big City boulevardiers have been flashing their price tags for some time. Now the updated Minnie Pearl look has hit suburbia -- just ask these kids from Florida...
...infant- mortality program, the clinic could suffer decreased funding. Any cutback in the program's $130,000 annual budget could be disastrous. "We can't afford to lose what we have," says Patton. "To us, what could be more logical than saving babies? But when you put a price tag on it, it becomes something else. It becomes a political thing...