Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dissidents in prison are separated from the others, and live in the hardest conditions. I have tried to contact people in prisons. Korshnikoff--for a half year his family heard nothing. I sent telegrams to the officer in his camp about his health, paid two rubles for an answer, but received none. I will send telegrams once more...
Close to 20 per cent of Harvard undergraduates--an increase of 3- to 5- per cent over last year--will not be allowed to register immediately today because they have not paid their term bills...
Anticipating further stoppages, the Prime Minister last week devised a formula that would grant the lower paid manual workers an increase of about 8.5%, even though the raise exceeded his guideline. But it seemed doubtful that the workers would accept the offer. Unless there was an unexpected cooling of Britain's latest bout of union fever, Callaghan's government could be doomed to the same fate that befell the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1974. Because Heath was unable to settle a strike by the militant mineworkers' union, his party lost its majority in a general...
...candy bar and the two-bit shoeshine. The bonds will continue to be sold through Dec. 31, 1979, after which they will be replaced by a costlier series that will pay the same 6% but have a much longer maturity. The old issue sold for $18.75 and paid $25 in five years; the new one will cost $25 but pay off $50 in eleven years and nine months...
Boston Outfielder Jim Rice wanted to think it over, but his wife Corine kept telling him "Sign now!" Which is how Rice, 25, became the highest-paid player in Red Sox history. Under the terms of a new contract announced last week, he will get more than $5 million over the next seven years, making him second in earnings in major league history only to Third Baseman Pete Rose, who just signed a four-year, $3.5 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies. "I probably could have got more," said the American League's MVP for 1978, "but I think...