Word: paid
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...There were a lot of entrepreneurs waiting in the wings who would have paid substantial money to obtain this property," said Tandler. "Harvard did without this money to provide a service for the community...
Sullivan also criticizes the Cambridge Homeowners' Association, which sponsored the petition, for using paid temporary employees who were ill-informed about the proposition to solicit signatures...
Later that evening Sergei, with his friend Sergo Mikoyan, the son of the President, paid a visit to the apartment of academician Anushavan Arzumanyan, who had spent the previous hours conferring with the elder Mikoyan...
Thatcher did little to hide her sympathies. She paid an emotional visit to the Warsaw grave of Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest murdered by government security agents in 1984. The next day Thatcher became the first Western leader permitted to visit Gdansk for a meeting there with Walesa, receiving a rousing welcome from thousands of Poles chanting "Solidarnosc! Solidarnosc!" "You have achieved so much," she told Walesa and other Solidarity officials after lunch at St. Brigid's presbytery. Polish intellectuals pointed out a crucial difference between Thatcher's efforts to rein in British trade unions and Rakowski's confrontation with Solidarity...
Whoever the unnamed athlete was, the N.C.A.A. says that among other things he received a $183 airline ticket from Kansas representatives, was paid $297.12 for work he did not perform and was lent $350 for a family problem -- all relatively minor breaches of the recruiting rules, perhaps, but ones that the N.C.A.A. pointedly made an issue of on principle. "When I left Kansas," said Brown last week, "I was led to believe that this was no big deal. I now realize that every time you are investigated by the N.C.A.A., it's a big deal...