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Somewhere deep in the income tax bureaucracy sat an official eager to answer verse with verse. Though Herbert had paid, and overpaid, the tax man still no refund made...
...television cameras and flood lamps were already in place, and TV technicians and newsmen had grabbed off many of the choice center seats. Making his way past them, the old reporter from a Chicago daily turned a baleful eye on the electronic newsmen. "Gentlemen," he said scornfully. "Technicians. Mechanics. Overpaid jerks...
...beachheads, and this undoubtedly speeded the pace of the campaigns. After Luzon was secured, 38 major and minor landings were launched in 44 days, a record for amphibious operations unlikely ever to be challenged. If U.S. troops paid for their victories (761 killed in Mindanao), the Japanese overpaid staggeringly for their defeats (25,000 killed in Mindanao...
...more than presidents of larger companies. Last week Homer and the 19 other Bethlehem executives who share in the company's lush incentive plan took a drastic pay cut. As a result of a suit brought by seven minority stockholders, who complained that Bethlehem's brass is overpaid, the company proposed a new salary plan for stockholder approval July 28. If the plan had been in effect last year, it would have trimmed $2,200.000 from the total $6,058,226 pay of the top 20, made Homer, at $322,335, only the nation's ninth best...
Physicist Edward Teller may have said that U.S. scientists are relatively underpaid. What does he have to say about Russia's underpaid scientists, or are they overpaid? The trouble with us is that we just don't find an end for pricing money. I am sure that Russia does not spend so many billion dollars as we do to lift a pinhead...