Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While agreeing that teachers should be paid more, school committee members said they cannot afford to provide the teachers with an 8 percent raise. Teachers' salaries already make up four-fifths of the school budget, they said, adding that the department must pay health insurance costs, special needs education costs, and automatic raises based on teachers' seniority and coursework...
...would like to see the teachers well paid, but we don't have the money," said fifth-year school committee member Frances H. Cooper...
Persistence paid off for a Leverett House senior and an alum yesterday when the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Club selected their play--submitted this year and last--for its spring production...
...depositors while receiving low yields on long-term mortgages. Furthermore, real estate prices in the Southwest cannot stay depressed forever. "We're at or near the bottom of the cycle for the Texas economy," says William Gibson, a former Continental Illinois banker who, with other investors, last month paid $48 million for twelve troubled Texas S and Ls (combined assets: $2.4 billion...
...Caller-paid services like Surfline are increasing faster than a Valley Girl's phone bill. The number of such hot lines operating in the U.S. has doubled in the past year, to 3,800, offering a growing Touch-Tone emporium of services ranging from the practical to the kinky. Customers can call for soap- opera updates, used-car prices, stock quotes, sex fantasies or rock-concert schedules. Prices run from as little as 50 cents a call to nearly $5 for the first minute. Total revenues are expected to reach $450 million this year, up 50% from 1987. While...