Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard paid a cook to prepare food; later, "we paid girls from the Radcliffe co-ops or from Lesley college to cook," said Erickson, a three-year resident of the co-op. At one point, after then-President Nathan M. Pusey's Swedish cook became dissatisfied with her job, she was conviced to cook for the co-op. "She cooked here for a year or two," said another former resident. "The food was good, but we had Swedish meatballs...
...doctoral dissertation, on peasant conditions at collective farms in the Stavropol region, paid homage to the benefits brought by the October Revolution but pointed to some shortcomings in Soviet rural life: the poor quality of food and clothing, the nonexistence of domestic plumbing and heating and the almost complete absence of entertainment. Sidney Monas, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, describes Raisa's paper, a synopsis of which is available at the Library of Congress as well as the Lenin Library in Moscow, as "slightly better than average, not altogether unorthodox, but with some distinct liberal...
...expanded coverage is expected to cost $32 billion over the next five years, which will be paid by Medicare premiums of up to $800. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen has championed the bill, and the measure is expected to sail through the House and Senate...
...came as a surprise. CBS will pay $243 million for its first Olympics since 1960. The bid seemed inordinately high to industry experts, in part because of the other networks' diffidence: NBC offered $175 million plus half of any advertising profits in excess of $325 million, while ABC, which paid $309 million for the Calgary Games and lost $65 million on the coverage, bowed out entirely. Adding to the doubts is the time difference between the U.S. and France, which could enable Americans to learn some results before taped events are broadcast in prime time. Nonetheless, CBS is already considering...
...price reforms and alter spending habits, he will need the cooperation of women. He has already eased in some reforms that should make life easier. The average minimum wage has been raised from $317 to $336 monthly, a change that benefits women primarily. Salaries have improved for some lower-paid professionals, among them teachers and doctors, who are mostly women. Moreover, many factories have added on-site banks, shoe-repair shops and even commissaries from which weekly food packages can be ordered...