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...American technology, long seen as sinking under Japan's rising sun, has even revived the Northrop Corp.'s hopes for its flawed and perhaps missionless B-2 bomber. The California company has launched a furious campaign to get more money for an aircraft that carries an $865 million price tag. The company and the Pentagon claim that the B-2 can destroy Soviet mobile missiles dispersed in millions of square miles of thick forests. Never mind that Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles for weeks from sites in the open desert while a huge force of allied warplanes tried to find...
...protesters also attacked the program's $15,250 per person price tag, for eight weeks of instruction and room and board. This cost falls on the taxpayers, the protesters said...
...restrictive work rules, rather than risk a strike. By the 1980s, featherbedding was so extreme that despite annual revenues approaching $425 million, losses averaged $1 million a month. At least twice, the parent Tribune Co. in Chicago explored a shutdown. Both times the plan foundered on the immediate price tag: more than $100 million, mainly for severance pay and pensions...
...Congress or a general, points to the gulf war as justification. Last week, for example, Democratic and Republican representatives from New York and Pennsylvania joined forces to order continued production of the F-14 Tomcat, a carrier- based interceptor Cheney says the Navy has in sufficient quantity. Price tag for the congressionally ordered continuation: $987 million...
...future shape of U.S. preparedness, and its price tag, will depend on the course of the gulf war and the outcome of political events in the troubled Soviet Union. Until these matters are resolved, it is just as well that the U.S. is not fighting even a fraction more than one war at a time...