Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic reason for the Navy's current crisis over new ships is that the ships have grown incredibly complex and their costs have soared. A Spruance-class destroyer costs $134.2 million; its World War II destroyer counterpart was only $5 million. The price tag on attack submarines has risen from $3.9 million in 1946 to $284 million...
Designed as a demonstration breeder for the U.S., Clinch River has been jinxed from the start. When Richard Nixon gave the go-ahead in 1971, its cost was projected at $699 million. Seven years later the price tag is $2.2 billion and ground has yet to be broken in the Tennessee valley. What's more, the architectural firm given the contract for the project wrote in a 1973 report that Clinch River was "one of the worst sites ever selected for a nuclear power plant based on its topography and rock conditions." And with the increased amounts of uranium...
Although the creation of the school from scratch would cost $85 million, the use of existing facilities will result in a price tag of only $30 million, some of which has already been pledged, Mayer said...
...quest of the league championship was renowned for being as zany and fractious as any in sport when he took over as coach early this season. The best team money could buy (basketball division) featured a $2.2 million payroll and a collection of egos that beggared even that price tag. Forward George McGinnis often behaved as though his feet were chained to the floor when someone else had the ball. Center Darryl Dawkins, 6 ft. 11 in., 251 lbs., was a tempestuous man-child who had skipped college and played wearing two gold necklaces and an earring. At his best...
...bags were still full, but now there were two outs as third baseman Rick Pearce blooped a short pop up in front of first base. Dartmouth's Brad Blair couldn't come up with the glove save, and what's more missed on his attempt to tag Pearce, thus permitting the first Harvard run to score...