Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filed a civil suit against Polumbo in 1975, alleging both physical and emotional wounds. A court awarded her $12,000 in damages, but Polumbo did not pay. So Summers' attorney invoked a rarely used 1842 Connecticut statute that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a wrongdoer who has not paid his damages, as long as the creditor pays the prisoner's upkeep. For twelve days Summers kept her attacker locked in the Hartford jail, a revenge that cost...
Some haulers marched voters right to the polls, watched while they voted and then paid them on the spot within a few yards of election officials. Outside the polls, the vote-buyers kept "bird dogs" on patrol to make sure that everything went smoothly. At one poll, it was reported, Leesville Mayor Ralph McRae Jr. ordered onlookers to back away. When the FBI arrived because of complaints from the Wilson forces, the payoff center was moved to a dead-end street. There, under a towering pine (called, yes, the money tree), some $10,000 in cash was disbursed...
Never mind that Workmen's Compensation paid all bills plus her salary during her absence. The building code requires two steps, not one, and a handrail as well, her lawyer claims. He says Judge O'Malley will never again have full use of her left arm. The city's lawyers aren't surprised that the plaintiff is a judge. "Every time someone falls, we get sued," says one. "It's all part of the inflation thing. It's a great little windfall for everyone...
...support, argued against doing anything to prop the dollar until its rout had degenerated into a panic-by which time the greenback had sunk 18% against the German mark and 26% against both the yen and Swiss franc. Reports TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber. "The U.S. this year paid a heavy price to learn something about world money markets. One of the tragedies is that there was nobody in the Treasury Department with any firsthand experience of how the markets worked-and the markets knew that...
Today Villahermosa is a get-rich-quick enclave in a jungle of poverty. The city's population has jumped from 150,000 to 250,000 in four years. Villahermosa has sprouted three first-class hotels, all booked solid. Highly paid oil workers have kicked up the prices of everything from housing to tortillas. Reeking of oil and money, the town is attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos. The trucks barreling between the town and the fields rarely stop when they hit a pedestrian. About one pedestrian is killed each night, often a bewildered campesino still...