Word: costing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Dartmouth College Library has no security. Neither does the Divinity School. Theoretically, one could walk out of each with a shopping bag full of loot. But, as a Div. School librarian told me, the cost of paying checkers is more than the cost of replacing stolen books. (Besides, if you steal a book from the Divinity School, you go straight to hell anyway...
...still stolen every day. Our tuition goes not only to replace those materials (many of which are rare and quite expensive), but we also have to pay for these book-checkers to listen to their Walkmans and arch their necks each time they pass by. Add to that the cost though is the frustration of doing without stolen books and magazines that haven't been replaced, and you have a serious problem...
...such extensive travel can be costly, and that's only the beginning of the financial burdens. Application fees, which run from $60-100; Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) prep courses, which cost around $600; postage and other miscellaneous expenses can add up to a hefty $2000 in total expenses per student...
...housewares chain has found a novel way to prod consumers to snap up East German-produced King Wenceslas tree ornaments: "The democratization of Eastern Europe will almost certainly drive the cost of these ornaments beyond what we believe they should cost...
...third edition of The Random House Encyclopedia weighs as much as a standard Christmas turkey (12 lbs. 5 oz.) but provides longer-lasting nourishment. On its pages are some 3 million words of text and 13,500 illustrations, most of them in color. The cost is commensurate. Even at $129.95, the volume is so cannily organized and illustrated that many families might consider it a bargain...