Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ring, the slender, unassuming man humbled the cowboy twice his size with a single sentence; "Listen, man, do you know who I am? I'm Joe Perkins." The boohoo, now gentle as a hypnotized kitten, was then led in by the ring police to a three dollar seat. Mysteriously as he had appeared, Joe Perkins suddenly vanished...
...multi-million dollar project--largest in Swiss history--is being financed by a Swiss conglomeration but built by foreign migrant workers. Although pay scales are adequate, no Swiss laborers could be found for the rigorous work, hence Turkish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Algerian workers were brought in for the mammoth construction job. All supplies must be flown in by chopper...
...Medicaid scheme and indicted 16 people in Chicago two weeks ago. By last week six of them had pleaded guilty, and one indicted doctor had committed suicide. The case is the latest example of the fastest-growing form of white-collar crime: ripping off Uncle Sam's multibillion-dollar social-welfare programs. But with the Chicago indictments, Uncle also served notice that he is finding new ways to strike back...
...reality. The '75 figures, for example, include only money income. They do not include such "in kind" payments as food stamps or the value of subsidized public housing. This sort of benefit increased during the recession, suggesting that the U.S. poor were better off in 1975 than their dollar-income numbers suggest...
While Allied was given the maximum penalty allowed under the law-an 1899 federal statute governing waste disposal in rivers and 1972 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act-the judge suspended all but $25,000 of the multimillion dollar fines he gave two owners of Life Science, and placed them on five years' probation...