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Even royalty has been affected by the wage-price spiral. Though Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola cut back their palace staff from 302 to 188, wages have risen so much that the King has been spending almost all his income on upkeep. At his request. Parliament last week voted him a $160,000 raise in salary to $1,000,000 a year. To make sure that he will not be caught in such straits again, Parliament also decreed that Baudouin's wages, like those of every Belgian union man, will henceforth include an automatic cost...
...took the U.S. 72 years to acknowledge its debt. In 1952 Congress passed a law that provided a "suitable" monument for Brumidi's grave, and an endowment for its upkeep. That was the least it could do for the immigrant artist who signed his name simply: "C. Brumidi, artist, citizen...
...pretensions keep his wife Nora and his ambitious daughter Sara in poverty. Melody will not tend bar--he has hired a barkeep. His daughter must wait on table while he drinks away the meager profits, and he keeps the establishment in debt through the extravagant upkeep of his greatest joy, a white thoroughbred mare...
...trouble is that the life-saving program is hideously expensive. It is not so much the first cost as the upkeep. To treat eleven patients, the Seattle Artificial Kidney Center at Swedish Hospital has a staff of two fulltime physicians and one halftime, plus five nurses and five technicians...
...Bunting mentioned the cost of upkeep as the major objection to off-campus houses...