"It's not just programs," Price said.
Two-day programs, priced at $4,900, will be held Aug. 1 and 2, Aug. 16 and 17 and Aug. 27 and 28.
True to its reputation for extravagance, Pebble Beach has added other culinary programs priced and pitched toward upscale travelers, the idea being that golfers who spend $475 on a tee time might want more than hot dogs after a round.
"When I tell a school $100," Mr. DePersia said, "they roll their eyes and say, 'Where am I going to get $100?' " Lincoln Center, which also used to present distance-learning programs, priced itself out of the market.
Behavioral changes, although very interesting and potentially highly effective, are excluded solely because the costs of the various tools to achieve them are very difficult to estimate: Advertising and awareness programs, price incentives, prohibitions, etc.
But with the total cost of all the various stimulus plans and relief programs priced conservatively at $1.1 trillion, there is real fear we might be heading for a new crisis the moment we leave this one.
Revenue rose 5.6percentto to $2.91 billion, during the quarter, helped by a rise in programming prices.
If Libya agrees to a program, prices will probably be set by Libyan officials after testing the market, he added.
Having scale in the cable industry is crucial for dealing with giant content providers such as Viacom and Disney and their demands for higher programming prices.
Under the highly controlled U.S. sugar program, prices for raw sugar are far more advantageous.
