Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these blustery mike-men and the looney callers are exceptions rather than the rule on the air-waves. In an age where politicians and the exorbitantly paid television anchors who cover them seem to have more in common with each other than with the public, talk radio provides an open forum, a marketplace of ideas, where citizens of all political backgrounds can voice their opinions...
...what is so troubling about anointing legislators for life. "The issue is not that we need to defeat incumbents," contends Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause. "It's just that competitive elections are what democracy is all about." What matters, in short, is not the amount that Congressmen are paid, but whether the nation can again create a political system in which they earn...
...Prime Minister from 1972 to 1980, thrashed Prime Minister Edward Seaga's Jamaica Labor Party by winning at least 44 of 60 parliamentary seats. In a remarkable show of conciliation, the charismatic and often feisty Manley called on party members to "take this victory with dignity and humility," and paid tribute to the nation's security forces for maintaining relative order during the election. Although at least twelve people were killed in campaign violence, this year's contest was considered peaceful compared with that of 1980, when more than 750 people died as heavily armed gangs roamed the streets...
...depositors 3%, lend money at 6% and tee up at the golf course by 3 p.m. When interest rates remained stable, the strategy worked well. But by the late 1970s, thrifts began steadily losing depositors to the new money-market funds, which were not covered by deposit insurance and paid higher interest rates...
...season, only 400 people visited Antarctica, but in the week before the Bahia Paraiso hit the reef, more than 500 visitors passed through Palmer Station alone. And Antarctic tourists are doing more than sailing to research centers for short visits and lecture tours. In 1988, 35 adventurers paid $35,000 each to set foot on the South Pole, and this year another group is skiing 600 miles to the bottom of the world. "Tourism really needs to be regulated," says Mary Voyteck, a scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund...