Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's productive workers is living on welfare ... If a person freely chooses leisure, he should not expect the productive working force to pay for it." I am going to voluntarily choose leisure next spring because there are other things I want to do, but it will be paid for by my money, the Social Security salary deductions I have been paying since the program started in the 1930s. How dare...
...smoky and sweltering in the high-ceilinged Pennsylvania Room at the Sheraton Hotel on John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Philadelphia. Some 300 Democrats have paid $250 each to attend a fund-raising reception, but instead of bunching around the bar and the hors d'oeuvres table, they are jostling for position at the door, waiting for the main attraction. "I do hope I can just see him," an elderly woman gushes...
Once again, the nation's energy debate deteriorated into a cacophony of angry charges, bitter recriminations and defensive denials. As irate Americans paid their first newly inflated heating bills, Exxon and other oil giants last week reported a new Spindletop of profits. For a people unshakably convinced that somebody must be ripping them off on energy prices, here was smoking-gun proof...
...country, however, paid a high price for economic progress: wages remained low, hours were long and factory workers had little, if any, union protection. Park brooked no opposition, either from his colleagues or his citizenry; he even altered the constitution with three "revitalizing" amendments that in effect turned the presidency into a near dictatorship. But not even the efficiency of his omnipresent Korean Central Intelligence Agency could prevent the growth of an opposition that included Christian church leaders as well as restless students. Park's repression proved embarrassing to Washington, especially after the election of Jimmy Carter...
...case, the money fund yield is not so large as it seems. The interest paid by most funds is subject to federal, state and local income taxes, just as are savings...