Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which was considered the favorite after spending $243 million for the rights to the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. As for ABC, it has now been shut out of three straight Olympics. NBC's winning bid exceeded most predictions and far surpassed the $300 million it paid for the Summer Games this year...
...Padres had wanted an arbitrator to decide if Hurst would be paid in the event of a strike but agreed to a "defensive lockout...
Under the language in Hurst's contract, a player gets paid during a lockout unless the lockout is in response to a strike or a strike threat...
...Mani Sadr: How do you explain this: The capitalist vermin said they were sending 5000 missiles in exchange for $59, but you paid $5000 for 59 missiles...
...deal also raises the salary competition among executives to absurd levels. Says John Swearingen, former chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana: "There is a limit to what managers ought to be paid for managing other people's money." Adds a top executive involved in a current takeover: "The yardstick for compensation has just gotten twelve inches longer. The chief executive who's doing a first-class job running a major U.S. corporation for $890,000 a year is going to start thinking he's some kind of a fool...