Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of concerns raised by the Department of Commerce over Japanese companies' submitting below-cost bids to build a supercomputer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the school announced early this week that it had cancelled plans to buy one of the ultra-powerful devices...
According to Lum, Harvard never accepts anybooks which it does not need whether the cost issubsidized...
Philadelphia's mayoral contest was the most closely watched municipal election, a costly, racially tinged campaign in which Goode, a Black, sought to hold off a comeback by former Democratic mayor-turned-Republican Rizzo. The bitter campaign cost an estimated $3.7 million, as each candidate called the other a liar in their quest to govern the "City of Brotherly Love...
...Companies are always guarded about any government regulation that has cost implications, and as in anything else, some are willing and some are not," he said...
...last year). One type of means test would cut off benefits for recipients above a certain income level. "There's a big distinction between entitlements for poor people and entitlements for everybody," says Ruben Mettler, chairman of TRW. Another suggested method to get entitlement costs under control would be to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment from 100% of the consumer price index...