Word: diem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audiences are paying their $20 or $30 a seat for glamour and a taste of the theater life, the theatrical types say they signed on with the bus-and- truck mainly for the money. The members of the company all collect a per diem expense, and the idea is to live on the per diem and stash the paycheck for when they get back to New York. "You need a nest egg in this business," says Bruce Daniels, a lead, "so you can survive while you're out trying to get . . ." -- his voice deepens and Tivoli lights blink...
Recounting the history of the war, Karnow said that America's support of the 1963 coup against South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dihn Diem "led us inexorably into putting combat troops into Vietnam. It became our war, it became our responsibility...
Most lawmakers said mistakes were the result of their own poor record keeping. The per diem pay is based on the distance from the lawmakers' homes to the Statehouse...
Former Rep. Vincent Piro took his $5 per diem every day of his three-week federal extortion trial...
...Carpe Diem Syndrome...