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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mishap made clear once again the enormous price tag on space ventures. Dennis DeConcini, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, noted bitterly that Congress had struggled to trim about $1.3 billion out of intelligence appropriations this year only to see almost that much blown away in the accident. Even before the explosion happened, CIA Director Jim Woolsey wanted $1 billion added to the $27.5 billion intelligence budget for 1994, but that will now be a tougher sell in Congress -- the extra money is earmarked for more space equipment...
...automatically compensated. And he has promised to decide, within 60 days, whether to include lung and prostate cancers and other diseases. Because these afflictions are so common, such a move could ring up tens of millions of dollars in additional claims. "We did not pay attention to the price tag but just to the scientific evidence," says panel member Dr. Graham Colditz, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. "If anyone raised the issue and said, 'Now we're dealing with the cancer that's going to be the most common,' the committee would say that's not our issue...
...There's only one problem with the Davies baby," ran the tag line for a particularly repulsive horror movie some years ago: "It's alive!" Well, there's only one problem with the 4.3 cents-per-gal. gas tax the Senate has proposed: it's too little. The House and Senate conferees, wrestling to reconcile their respective budget packages, should make one tiny little amendment. Where it says 4.3 cents, they should add two words: a year. And maybe a third word: forever. For decades, we'd still be paying vastly less for gas than our competitors (in Europe...
...sixteen first-year dorms, both within the Yard walls and near the Union, were slated for overhauls. The price tag was considerable--according to FAS Director of Planning and Senior Development Officer Phillip J. Parsons, the total estimate for the project runs between $60 and $70 million, if everything goes fairly well...
...everyone's moving in the other direction. Even the League. Why? Why? If you have a philosophy, you shouldn't put a price tag on it. If you believe this is the way it should be, then you have to try and make it work...