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...consumption, and deal with it directly. Economic tinkering harms more than it helps, especially when inflation already runs towards double digits annually. Plans to give the oil companies more money and power companies more nuclear plants seem to promise a perpetuation of a system that has a high price tag and a limited life expectancy...
...soothing comments were prompted by Jimmy Carter's private assurance to congressional leaders that the U.S. price tag for the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty would be only "a little over $4 billion" in additional aid stretched over three years. Administration officials later raised this estimate to nearly $5 billion, with Israel and Egypt each getting about $2 billion more for military aid and $500 million more each for economic support over the three years. Israel now gets $1.8 billion and Egypt $.8 billion annually, making them the largest U.S. aid recipients...
These are the only clothes I have." He asked permission to remove a large name card pinned to his chest. The presiding judge agreed, saying, "You don't need an identification tag." The judge then read a 17-point indictment; each of the charges carried the death penalty. They ranged from general corruption to spying for the West and smuggling heroin from France...
Everyone is familiar with the gasps and adjectives-stunning, walloping, whopping, staggering-usually inspired by a $5 billion price tag. Yet when President Carter pledged roughly that amount in additional military and economic aid over three years to help bring Israel and Egypt together, there were few immediate complaints. Most Americans seemed to agree with Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker's belief that the prospective aid would be a real bargain...
...diamond or chevron patterns to provide both grip and glide. A light flexible boot is attached to the ski by a single toe-binding. A cross-country package complete with touring skis, boots and poles can be had for around $100, considerably less than the $300-to-$500 price tag on a similar downhill ensemble...