Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uproar rose, it turned out the mayor had hired a former city hall crony to prepare a new snow-removal plan, and paid him $90,000 to do it. The resulting 23-page paper proved to be hardly better than a high school essay. Then came revelations of similar huge consulting fees to other political buddies. Chicagoans' anger increased. Finally stung, Bilandic made a bizarre speech in which he likened the attacks on him to the Crucifixion and the criticism of the city to the Holocaust. He charged that the same "subversives" who had toppled governments in Iran...
...eavesdropping station near the Soviet border was invaded by rebels last week. First reports indicated that mojahedeen guerrillas had assaulted the station, seizing 20 technicians and sophisticated electronic equipment used to monitor Soviet missile tests. It later turned out that local citizens, seeking to make sure that they were paid for some work they had done at the base, had refused to let the technicians leave. After hasty consultations with Washington, Bazargan's government dispatched a plane carrying $200,000 in cash to settle the debt. The technicians were brought back to Tehran on an Iranian military plane, then...
Rudolph R. Russo, member of the Cambridge board of assessors, said HCHP had paid the fee, but added, "they still have yet to prove that they are tax-exempt...
This year, McLaughlin cleaned house and paid for it dearly (8-21, 6-8 Ivies). His final inheritance from the previous era--a brutal schedule and an "If it's Tuesday, it must be Winnemucca" West Coast road trip--left his troops in a state of moral and physical decline...
...worrying is over now for many of the University's 42 Iranian students--at least for a little while. "There's no general policy that everyone is going to get paid for," Jennifer Stevens, director of the International Office, said yesterday, but, the University will postpone payment deadlines and may assist students with loans and other kinds of aid while Iranian students wait for funds...