Word: upkeep
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...bill's sponsors-Rep. Timothy W. Hickey (D-Camb.) and Sen. Robert L. Cawley (D-Bos.)-claimed their proposal would provide a satisfactory solution to the stadium problem. Noting that upkeep of the stadium is costly, they said. "This will relieve the University from this continuous financial expense...
...tour business, Clark admits, still earns only enough to pay for the upkeep of the American Express offices abroad. But it has won customers for such other ventures as the teaching of foreign languages and the publication of Travel & Camera magazine, which Amexco established by purchasing and redesigning U.S. Camera and Travel magazine. In June, the company began a computerized service that can provide almost instantaneous reservations at some 250,000 hotel and motel rooms between Boston and Honolulu...
...three-member committee, headed by Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd., has been studying British representation abroad for a year. Their report, just released, may upend yet another British institution. Comparing Britain to "a man who decides that his requirements no longer justify the upkeep of a Rolls-Royce," the committee recommended "a significant reduction" in the size of the diplomatic service, a 50% slash in the size of overseas information departments, and a one-third cut in the number of armed-service attaches. Moreover, said the committee, the "balance of the workload" should be precisely...
...pickup trucks (55% of the 16 million on the road) and of the vastly more expensive behemoths of the highways will benefit from better sales. Trucking companies are pressing manufacturers for ever larger, more efficient, maintenance-free trucks and are willing to pay a higher initial cost to keep upkeep down. Last year, some 100,000 of the over-13-ton class were sold, mostly by Harvester, White Truck, Mack and CMC. The demand is such that their number is expected to triple...
Dangerous Imbalance. Under the treaty, the Soviets agreed to pay part of the upkeep costs of their troops, but the Czechoslovaks are obligated to furnish the garrisons with barracks. The Soviet air force is taking over five fields, from which it will fly MIG-21 interceptors and SU-7 and YAK-28 Firebar fighter-bombers. All in all, the Soviets will leave behind a force sufficient to keep the Czechoslovaks in line and NATO worried about the threat to West Germany's exposed southern flank...