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...then, the original $6 million price tag had reached $7 million. "This was no one's fault," Doable said. The ederal grantswas give in 1965 and since then, Boston has experienced a yearly inflation of 12-15 per cent...
...relieved as the plane settled down at Paris' Orly Airport and a large Citroën drove up on the tarmac, followed by another car full of police. Each of the men carried off the plane a brand new and obviously heavy black suitcase with a discreet plastic tag bearing the name and symbol of Delta Airlines. Inside the suitcases was a cool $1,000,000 in $50 and $100 bills paid out by Delta on July 31 to three men and two women who skyjacked the airline's Flight 841 and flew to Algiers to join Black...
...final phase of nineteenth-century literature, the game turns into a complex pattern of tag or "mother-may-I". Henry James's American girls are seduced not by men, but by surfaces, by "their failure to look deep enough into things." And the men perceiving full well the awful depths, sense a mysterious force in women that threatens to undercut their own power. Their outright acts of betrayal and cruelty are breathless attempts to remain one step ahead of destruction...
...comparison is based not on the size of premiums but on what insurance men call the "interest-adjusted cost," which Denenberg insists is the best way to measure a true price tag. To arrive at that figure, he went through a complex series of calculations. First he took the annual premiums on a $10,000 straight-life policy, which ranged from $110 to $417, depending on the buyer's age and sex and the company's price structure. Then he added 4% to the premiums to reflect what a policyholder would have earned on his money...
...Traveler folded was for the regulars at The Globe to recount old tales of covering stories with tenacious, but friendly, competitors from the Traveler whom they spent years trying to screw out of inside information. The Globe's management, still gasping at the relatively paltry $8.5 million price tag paid for the Traveler and its immense mechanical plant, mustered the good-naturedness to run a front-page editorial welcoming their new competitor. The Herald Traveler and Record American's publisher, Harold Kern, welcomed his paper into existence--also on the front page--with a four paragraph blurb reminiscent of copy...