Word: pay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fonda-Hayden message regarding economic democracy is logical enough. Only through ensuring accountability to the public and periodic full disclosure will business enterprises pay more attention to the public interest than they do at present...
...receives too many benefits. I say, if military benefits are all that great, why are we having all these people leaving?" But to improve pay and benefits would be very costly. A wage increase that simply permitted servicemen to catch up with inflation since 1972 (about 75%) would cost $5 billion. Reinstating attractive educational benefits, similar to the old G.I. Bill, would run an additional $1 billion...
Whether the Pentagon can afford to pay billions more for manpower when it needs billions just for ammunition is going to be one of the most controversial questions in the defense budget debate. Yet even now, a surprising 600 of every Pentagon dollar goes for personnel costs. The Soviets, by contrast, devote less than 30% of their defense outlays to personnel. How the Kremlin does this is no secret. Because the U.S.S.R. never abolished conscription, 75% of all Soviet males are drafted. (The rest are deferred for the familiar reasons...
Radcliffe will pay for the center with money from the Century Fund Drive, Mary Cox, director of development, said yesterday. Radcliffe has already received $972,000 in gifts and pledges, including a $500,000 single anonymous donation, Cox said...
...same state held for House-wide parties. Students knew they were supposed to check I.D.s and buy temporary liquor licenses if they wanted to tap kegs, but few of them did. They maintained they could not break even on dances if they had to pay both a band and $50 for a one-night license. So they chanced the wrath of the Cambridge Police Department--it seemed a pretty safe bet. Harvard parties are almost always uneventful; inebriated students generally head back to their rooms rather than vandalize the city...