Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College to hook up with the Ice Follies. It was not until a half-decade later that McFerrin "heard my subconscious tell me to sing -- the result, no doubt, of years of soul- searching and a nagging voice that kept pressing me to take risks." Now the risks have paid off handsomely, and exhaustingly. Feeling tapped out, McFerrin ended his latest concert tour on Sept. 30, and will now work from home, where he can spend more time with Debbie, his wife of 13 years, and their two sons, Taylor, 7, and Jevon...
...network specials and sports have also been sinking. The Summer Olympics on NBC drew an average prime-time rating of 17.9, well under the 21.2 promised to advertisers -- and a Bob Beamon long jump away from the 23.2 drawn by ABC for the Summer Games in 1984. NBC, which paid $300 million for the TV rights, will show an unexpected loss because of the compensation time it must give advertisers...
Ceasar is the paid organizer for a church-based citizens group that is struggling to bring drinking water to thousands of impoverished families along the Mexican border. As such, she mobilizes working-class Hispanics who live in unregulated subdivisions called colonias that sprawl across miles of cotton fields in El Paso's Lower Rio Grande Valley...
...University bought the land from the trustees of the Fly Club for $33,209 and later purchased an additional 2000 feet. It has paid taxes on it since that time, although the land lay virtually unused by students who were not Fly Club members until...
Last year, Harvard paid $6989.08 in taxes on the land, which was valued at $713,900. But although the tax rate is down slightly this year, the University can expect to pay more in taxes in the future because land values in the Harvard Square area are rising...