Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials used a computer search to identify 46,000 federal employees among the defaulters. Result: 5,000 promptly anted up $2.3 million. Now the remaining 41,000 are being told they must pay up in 30 days or their wages will be garnisheed at the rate of 15% per paycheck (25% if they sue the Government and lose). To pressure nonfederal debtors, the Government is negotiating a plan with credit bureaus that would place a black mark on the credit ratings of citizens who are lagging in repaying their Government loans. That measure might go into effect...
Brooks, however, puts forth an additional reason for his hefty paycheck: he wears two hats. Not only did he net about $82,000 for his UHS job in 1981-1982, he says, but he also drew $46,000 from his newly endowed professorship of Surgery, of which he set aside $20,000 for retirement. That chair was donated by and named after former patient Frank Sawyer, who Brooks says "likes me because I've kept him alive for some time...
...seniors most in demand by corporations this year are those who majored in electrical engineering, computer science and accounting. But even a diploma in those fields does not guarantee a paycheck, as in the recent past. This year the market for engineers, once booming, is down 18% from 1982. Cutbacks by oil companies have dried up opportunities for chemical engineers. In 1970 the geology department at the University of Texas at Arlington had three graduate students and all were hired. Then students flocked to geology as the search for oil quickened. This year, with an oil glut, only...
...describes as "one of the best deals in the industry today." The agreement gives Pryor the chance to write, produce and act in four films over the next five years, with total control unless he goes over budget. He will also star in three more pictures for an additional paycheck in the uptown neighborhood of $ 15 million. His first project, The Charlie Parker Story, based on the life of the great jazz saxophonist, is due to start shooting in October. It will be followed by Double Whoopee, reuniting Pryor with Funnyman Gene Wilder. The poolroom "stroker from Peoria...
...Steel Corp.'s five local coal mines, confidently dubbed "the billion-dollar mine." But then U.S. Steel closed all the mines down. Now Roosevelt hangs around the house doing odd jobs and collects $188 a week in unemployment compensation to add to his wife's $112 weekly paycheck from her cashier's job. With a 13-year-old son, they are barely scraping along, fearful that the unemployment benefits may soon be exhausted. But Mrs. Stepney considers herself one of the lucky ones. "I have a job," she says simply. "I thank the Lord every day that...