Word: cente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's 50 cent an hour more than student computer programmers usually make. It's a dollar more than the dorm crew supervisors make. It's two dollars more than other student office workers get. And it comes directly out of the students' pockets--Melendez's salary is financed by the $10 Undergraduate Council fees tacked on to student term bills...
...HARVARD undergraduate, Brian R. Melendez '86 took 66 cent from this year. He says he's considering doing it again next year, and you can't really blame him. You see, Melendez, has perhaps the best student job on campus. As Executive Secretary of the Undergraduate Council he earns $3808 a year: 17 hours a week; seven dollars an hour...
According to the city manager's report, budget figures for fiscal year 1985 exceed last year's revised estimates by almost $9 million. The increased expenditures will probably require a "slight increase" in taxes next year, including a nine cent hike in water bills, the report said...
...billion debt. The country has refused to accept an IMF austerity program to get new loans, and the Venezuelans are relying on oil revenues to pay for vital imports. Jaime Lusinchi, who became Venezuela's President in February, vowed that his government "will pay back every cent it owes," but said that he would not submit to repayment terms that "impede the progress of the country...
Some Congressmen have meanwhile gone ahead on the issue. A bill co-sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman and Gerald Sikorski spreads the burden of paying for emissions reductions. Under the plan, a 1 cent per kilowatt tax would be levied nationwide on utility customers. The $2 billion raised by the tax would be used to subsidize scrubbers for the dirtiest Midwestern power plants. Tax revenues would finance nearly 90 percent of the cost of the scrubbers, which could reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions by about 40 percent in 10 years' time...