Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's haulage firms and are demanding 22.5%; public workers want up to a whopping 41% increase. Even Callaghan himself has violated his own guidelines. In a fruitless effort to head off the government employees' walkout, he dangled increases of 8% to 9% before the lowest-paid public workers, but to no avail...
Surrounded by her sons and daughters, in-laws and grandchildren, the handsome 56-year-old matriarch, Marhemat Mokhtari, talks animatedly about the old feudal life in one of Iran's poorest areas. Fifty years ago, Khomein was controlled by landlords. A peasant who herded sheep was paid 30 rials, the equivalent of half a dollar, for a year's work. Tenant farmers who came to the area were given quotas to meet: often their entire crop of wheat was for the landlord, with nothing left over to make bread of their own. Mrs. Mokhtari remembers that the Ayatullah...
...ghetto. "You ought to be in pictures," says a Kodak ad. The lottery offers to make you a millionaire. And through all of this is wandering Collins. He does his business in porno lounges, movie theaters, used car lots--everything's for sale and it all has to be paid...
...impact of this usurious interest rate will be both inflationary and recessionary. The high cost of interest, which directly increases the cost of everything consumers buy, especially for a home which is paid for over many years, will inflate prices while constricting demand for goods and labor. Though the latter may tend to depress prices, the former, given the exorbitant interest rates, will in all probability overwhelm the deflationary advantages. And in the case of high interest rates, it is once again the less wealthy who are priced out of the market, or to put it in more human terms...
...plan would benefit the poor, unemployed and elderly not now eligible for publicly funded health care and unable to pay the premiums of private plans. HealthCare would give them free care and the cost of their coverage would be paid by the government, the draft proposes...