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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each of the 600 U.S. students evacuated from Grenada, or $1 million for every square mile of territory. The real value of the operation, which rooted out a murderous crowd that had gunned its way to power, cannot be easily calculated-even if its price tag...
Opposition to the project is strong and the price tag is high, but it should be supported, because the accelerator has the potential to lead to such important discoveries with benefits hardly forsee-able today. The discovery that atoms consist of neutrons, protons and electrons led to countless discoveries in many fields...
...foreign business last year, up from $103 million in 1972. The Israeli arms industry is pinning its hopes on two big-ticket items. The Merkava tank is a new, wedge-shaped machine that can hold up to ten soldiers. Israelis like to point out that its $1.6 million price tag makes it the cheapest tank in the world. According to U.S. experts, the Merkava (Hebrew for chariot) outperformed the older U.S. M-60 tanks during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon...
...prime goals of middle-class Americans has been to own a single-family home. In 1965 the average price of a new house was just $20,000. By 1975 the figure had more than doubled, to $42,600. Last week the Commerce Department reported that in May the price tag on the American Dream rose to a nightmarish $101,000. It climbed by $5,100 just since April...
There may thus be less in this expansive and expensive production than meets the eye. But the result, even with a price tag of $200, is by no means negligible. For openers, at least one major puzzle posed by earlier editions of the novel has been solved. Stephen Dedalus, a brooding young poet who wanders through Dublin June 16, 1904, is haunted by the recent death of his mother. Late at night, drunk and hallucinating, Stephen sees her in a vision and pleads: "Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men." She does...