Posts Tagged ‘cost’

Obama decries rising cost of college education (AP)

President Barack Obama reaches out to shake hands with supporters at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP – President Barack Obama called Friday for an overhaul of the higher education financial aid system, warning that colleges and universities that fail to control spiraling tuition costs could lose federal funds.


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For Iran, cost of closing strait may outweigh gain (AP)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Iranian Navy personnel take part in their naval maneuvers dubbed Velayat 90 on the Sea of Oman, Iran, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. An Iranian surveillance plane has recorded video and photographed a U.S. aircraft carrier during Iran's ongoing navy drill near a strategic waterway in the Persian Gulf, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ali Mohammadi) NO SALESAP – With missile batteries, fleets of attack boats and stocks of naval mines, Iran can disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz but probably cannot completely shut down the world’s most important oil route, military analysts say. The question for Iran’s leadership is whether it is worth the heavy price.


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Bloomberg: EmblemHealth sale could cost city $300 million

The state’s plan to convert the city’s nonprofit health insurer into a for-profit venture could cost the city $300 million, Mayor Bloomberg said Friday.

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Elle Macpherson’s adviser: Hacking cost me my job (AP)

British actor Steve Coogan arrives to testify at the Leveson inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. The Leveson inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP – Elle Macpherson fired her business adviser for leaking secrets when journalists were actually getting juicy details about the supermodel by hacking into her phone, the former aide told a British inquiry into media ethics Tuesday.


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Free throws cost Johnnies in 58-57 loss to Aggies

St. John’s Nurideen Lindsey stood on the free throw line with just 2.3 seconds on the clock and an upset of No. 19 Texas A & M so close it could be tasted. But the Johnnies never got to sample that sweetness. Lindsey, looking at a one-point deficit, missed both free throws and the Aggies rebounded the ball and were able to run out the clock on a 58-57 win.

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Mailing a letter to cost a penny more next year (AP)

AP – It’ll cost a penny more to mail a letter next year.

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Wall St. protests cost $2M in police OT

The NYPD said Thursday that three weeks of anti-Wall Street demonstrations have cost the city $2 million in police overtime and defended the use of pepper spray and batons to control rowdy crowds.

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