Under the new formula, what we have to find out is the actual cost, excluding extravagances, of the actual building.
What are the extravagances upon which those authorities expend their scarce resources?
Throughout the whole education system there are probably a great number of extravagances which might be looked at and done away with.
There is now an overwhelming record of admitted extravagances and mistakes, and doubtless there are many of which we are still unaware.
I am aware of certain cases where we have been able to check serious extravagances so far as our powers enable us to do so.
Even when we have cut out these extravagances, it is not going to be easy to get these 500,000 houses.
Another objection might be that it is too late to take such a drastic step, and that we cannot redeem our past extravagances.
They commit many extravagances within their small area.
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