Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penthouse paid each of them $1000 for the story, Weller said...
Tauke, however, said he expects Congress to take up the issue later, along with a review of honoraria, often paid to members by special interests seeking to influence legislation...
...master manipulator, a silver-tongued charmer who lured women to their deaths, confounded police pursuers and clogged the court system for nearly a decade. Last week, when Ted Bundy was finally strapped into Florida's electric chair and jolted with 2,000 volts of electricity, he paid with his life for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of Kimberly Leach, a twelve-year-old Lake City girl. But if his last-minute confessions prove to be true, the former law student may have killed as many as 50 young women in Utah, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Florida from...
...license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more at a time. Though gun dealers in some states are required to report multiple purchases, federal agents say sellers do not always cooperate...
...Avis program, the company's 24 million shares are held in a trust and gradually released to employees as the debt is paid off over a 17-year period. Vittoria reserved 13% of the stock for key managers, "the 132 people I cannot afford to lose," who initially got at least 294 shares each. The other 12,300 employees were given a first-time allocation of two shares for every $1,000 in salary. Since each share is worth about $5 and the average Avis employee earns about $20,000 a year, this amounted...