Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record for private institutions. Almost all of the larger schools seem to be planning or conducting the biggest fund drives in their history. Harvard College plans to launch a campaign this summer whose goal is likely to be at least $200 million and which will be coordinated by 100 paid staffers. The half-dozen most ambitious drives currently under way (see box) are seeking a combined total of $1.56 billion...
...death better than the very prosecution of Bolles's murderers. The three lower-class hoods who set up the bomb that killed have all been apprehended and either sentenced to death or plea-bargained for lesser sentences, but the politically powerful millionaire whom Arizona prosecutors are convinced ordered and paid for Bolles's execution is still a free man. John Harvey Adamson, the man who admits planting the bomb under Bolles's car, has testified that he was hired for $50,000 to kill Bolles and two other enemies of Arizona liquor dealer Kemper Marley through a Marley intermediary. Bolles...
Some of the merchandise is taken back into Mexico legally (and duty is paid on it); much more is smuggled, by individuals for their own use or by professionals for resale. The total value of goods smuggled into Mexico from the U.S. is thought to approach $1 billion a year...
...decision last year to reject the proferred presidencies of Yale and the University of Chicago. "Those other schools are nice," he says, "but Harvard is mine. Kind of an investment for the kids, you know--the mortgage is sort of high, but in 417 years it'll all be paid off." President Bok, apprised of Rosovsky's remarks, admits that "It's a difficult problem...
...tried one of those cases and lost it, in New Orleans about ten years ago. The cigarette companies paid the other side over a million dollars...Then I had a fucking judge, I think that he couldn't wait until five o'clock so he could water his tobacco plant in his window...