Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began to implement a new $25 million scholarship program intended to make it easier for minorities to pursue careers in academia. Under the program, the undergraduate debts of Columbia doctorates will be substantially wiped out by the university. Those who receive their Ph.D.s elsewhere will have half their debts paid. Because Columbia is half the size of Harvard, as the dean of Columbia College noted, the gift is the equivalent of $50 million here...
...Cosby is, as he would pronounce it, waaaaaay out front and still running hard. Already the most beloved and best-paid entertainer in America, he still works like a hungry journeyman: jetting from a movie set in San Francisco to a weeklong casino gig in Las Vegas to the taping of his TV series in New York to a benefit for black college students in Los Angeles. "Sure, sometimes I think I'm stretched thin," Cosby muses, pausing to pinch off the end of his Connoisseur Geant. "But I remember how my mother worked twelve- hour days cleaning other people...
...paid a $2 million bribe to Sheik Fadlallah to halt acts of violence against American interests by his Hezbollah Party in Lebanon. The bribe, paid after an assassination attempt failed, halted the hostilities...
...addition, WYBC files revealed claims from station clients that they had paid Duff and Jones more than $9500 in cash--money which the student-run organization never received, according to The Daily...
Alexander couldn't even look forward to a fat paycheck to allay the boredom--six days a week, 18 hours a day. "I was paid atrociously--about $1.70 an hour," he says. To make matters worse, he adds, "All the lighting cable I worked with was asbestos...