Word: thecost
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...Anything that the president of Harvard saysthat is mildly newsworthy is going to get in thenews," says Robert Birnbaum, a professor ofeducation at the University of Maryland whoadvocates a generally conciliatory style ofleadership. "The president can get any singlething he wants done done. The only thing is thecost of getting that...
...committee anticipates a temporary reductionin salary increases in order to neutralize thecost of maintaining the current level of pensioncontributions, which are tax-exempt...
...That's absolutely ridiculous," he said. "Sincewhen does any student have a right to demand thecost of maintaining a family? The vast majority ofgraduate students get free tuition. They getstipends...
...intelligence community, which includes the CIA as well as the Pentagon, the State Department and FBI intelligence services, hasa $28 billion-a-year budget. That is likely to shrink, given thecost-cutting mood in Congress. Its most expensive items are the billion-dollar spy satellites that former CIA Director James Woolsey, who had frequent funding battles with Congress, wanted to upgrade. But Senate critics complain that the CIA already has six photographic spy satellites sitting in warehouses, which, along with the ones in orbit, could take pictures for at least the next decade. New satellites for intercepting communications signals would...
However, in his report Rogers notes that thecost-of-repair approach does have some drawbacks.For example, it is difficult to assign repaircosts to such intangibles as a loss of aestheticsor damage to habitat. Moreover, socialconsiderations such as equity and the role ofwomen would be very difficult to incorporate intothe model...