Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discretion is imperative; the Secretary of Defense's self-control is a matter of national welfare. All that is at stake in the Boggs case is dreams. We do not care whether our car mechanic, say, is a philanderer, so long as he does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players to entertain us, to inspire us with feats of self-transcendence, to do the things that we can only dream of doing -- like hitting a 100-m.p.h. fast ball or leaping over fences to make the catch that...
...most active inspection program is run by the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service, but it is purely voluntary and paid for by the plant operators and major fish outlets like fast-food restaurants. About 7% of seafood plants participate, and they tend to be the cleanest ones that need inspection least...
...Brady Proposal comes in the wake of almost 10 years of a staunch U.S. policy towards debtor nations: that is, that all the money loaned must be paid back in full eventually. This was one of the parts of Secretary of State James A. Baker III's debt plan...
...Here's one for those who paid attention to last year's World Series telecast. Which Los Angeles Dodger led the Blue Crew in hitting during the 1988 World Series against the Oakland...
...problems. What happened was just the opposite. Most banks simply refused to issue new loans, fearing they would be throwing good money after bad. As a result, debtor countries found themselves using more and more of their scarce currency reserves to pay their debts. Last year Latin American nations paid $26 billion in interest to their creditors but received only $6 billion worth of new bank loans. The results were stagnant growth and a rate of inflation that has soared to 400% in Argentina and 1,000% in Brazil...