Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loos did submit her first script under the gender neutral name of A. Loos because she had heard that male writers get paid better. And throughout her career, Loos was at the mercy of the whims and prejudices of the producers, almost exclusively male, who ran Hollywood and Broadway...
Until 1983, the city paid municipal employees to set up a privately owned nativity scene on the Cambridge Common--amid increasing controversy...
After that ordinance passed, private sources paid to set up the scene depicting the birth of Jesus, which consisted of a wooden shelter and several figures...
...this week, for every 100 people jostling on board the Continental Boeing 747 en route from New York to Los Angeles, chances were that 90 of them had bought their tickets on the cheap. The other ten had shelled out as much as $866. The business travelers had probably paid $550, the pleasure trippers $362, the bargain hunters as little as $159. The only people who did any better were the frequent flyers who cashed in their mileage and paid nothing...
...remembering Kennedy on the day he was slain, rather than on the anniversary of his birth, his memory becomes jaundiced. No matter how much attention is paid to his achievements in public life, these accomplishments seem less significant when viewed in the ominous shadow of his assasination. It is like watching a play of his life with a chorus sitting in the rear of the stage whispering "if only he had lived, if only he had lived..." Unfortunately, Kennedy's death, now a national obsession, has become the most memorable accomplishment of his life...