Word: paid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violated Integrity. Fitzgerald has told a Capitol Hill committee, among other things, that the Air Force paid a $2 bil lion cost "overrun" on the C-5A trans port plane. He estimated that overruns on the development of the Minuteman II missiles were "better than $4 billion." He confirmed earlier rumors that the Pentagon paid $2.5 billion more than originally anticipated for the avionics...
...charge that the association has lost touch. Said Wilkins: "When they're in trouble, who in hell comes to their rescue but the good old N.A.A.C.P.?" Convention resolutions backed such traditional goals as a higher minimum wage, extension of the antipoverty program and stronger antidiscrimination laws. They also paid lip service to black power by backing community control of schools and cooperation with other black organizations, such as the Black Panthers...
...rise amid the cacti and creosote bushes, massive monuments to hedonism. Inside their carpeted, clockless confines, nothing seems real: time stands still, and $100 is just a black gambling chip. This Las Vegas is a jet-age Sodom, a venal demimonde in which the greatest compliment that can be paid a man is to say that he has "juice" (influence in the right places). The city is the ultimate affront to taste...
...some women, merely appearing neatly dressed for breakfast was enough to start their tokens; patients who had spent all day in a rocking chair were paid to get up and observe a job being done, then paid a little more for helping to accomplish it, and then obliged to pay rent for the chair. Withdrawn patients were paid for speaking to others...
...gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...