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...Pollution Act made compliance with many of these recommendations a matter of law, calling for fines of ?100 (now about $200) for violations. Few businessmen felt intimidated by that paltry penalty, but industry cooperated. Besides the $400 million spent by the water authority for pollution control, private firms have paid out upwards of $200 million for their own treatment plants. Is there a reason for this extraordinary and costly cooperation? Says a water authority spokesman: "The fortuitous thing about the Thames is that it runs beneath the nose of Parliament...
...star moved to the top of the list of baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing San Francisco Pitcher Vida Blue, who reportedly could earn up to $800,000 next year. Rose also zooms past San Francisco's O.J. Simpson, the aristocrat of pro football ($733,358), and Denver's David Thompson, pro basketball's top banana...
...with Rose pulling down a Phillies cap over his pageboy. Rose also knows he can sell a lot of tickets for the Phils to cover his salary. Says baseball's leading entrepreneur: "I feel like I'm the No. 1 player, and I just want to get paid like...
...National Union of Students (NUS) is one of the cornerstones of student radicalism. The union officially represents 350,000 students from all over the country and has an operating budget of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which comes from dues paid by individual chapters at most colleges and universities. The union, run by a Central Committee of 11 members, goes beyond simply looking out for students' interests by connecting student issues with the broader question of structural reform of the Canadian economy...
...have it better than to be paid to talk to some of the finest young people in the world?" Perry said...