Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the sacrifices of public service is the joy it offers. Public officials lead interesting lives: they all have the opportunity to make a difference; some even make history. Compared with underappreciated professions like teaching and nursing, where doing well takes a backseat to doing good, Congressmen are handsomely paid. The days of politicians like Lyndon Johnson amassing a fortune may be over, but few people leave public service poorer than when they entered...
...does not follow, however, that public servants should be paid a pittance. Yet right now the public seems to take the attitude that giving legislators money only encourages them. In a poll last week for TIME/CNN, more than 55% of 506 people surveyed did not feel that Congressmen should be required to give up all outside income, nor that they should get a raise in exchange...
...economy, desultory even in the best of times, is now virtually shut ! down. Automobile, tire and auto-parts production have come to a stop. Ranchers have halted delivery of cattle because they are being paid with uncashable checks. The government cannot print money fast enough, so a severe cash shortage has prompted bank closings. Because the austral has lost 90% of its value since February, most people try to conduct their business in U.S. dollars, although it is now illegal to do so. According to private estimates, what is left of the economy runs on $500 million worth of austral...
...When Gingrich co-wrote Window of Opportunity in 1984, he formed a limited partnership and gathered $105,000 from 21 conservative supporters to underwrite the project. Window sold only 12,000 copies, but the lost investments turned into tax write-offs for the backers. Gingrich's wife Marianne was paid a salary of $11,500 for her work in helping establish the partnership. Democrats filed a formal complaint about the book deal with the House ethics committee in April; Common Cause joined in last month, and Gingrich expects the issue to be taken up this week...
Despite the poisonous atmosphere on Capitol Hill as House Democrats lose their Speaker, the new attention to speaking fees, lobbyist-paid vacations and pac money is long overdue. -- Republican pit bull Newt Gingrich, whose accusations scuttled Wright, thirsts for more blood. Some Democrats hope it will...