Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brien's conditions for accepting the double role of campaign manager and national chairman was that he have absolute authority. However, he will not stay long enough to effect a complete overhaul of the creaky party machinery. Serving without pay, O'Brien, 51, promised to remain only through the election. He is anxious to return to private life and write a book about his years in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...
...bought an other half-hour for national showing on ABC this week. Money seems to be no serious problem. Though the figures are secret, one estimate places contributions at $40,000 a day. Featuring a special pitch for funds at the end of each show, the television broadcasts even pay for themselves...
Most of the disputes centered on better pay, but that was not the issue in the most serious situation of all: New York City. There, the militant, 55,000-member United Federation of Teachers was threatening to repeat its opening-bell strike of last September. Then, the main issue was more money for the teachers. This year, the dispute centers on a controversy over efforts to break up the city's huge, bureaucratic system and turn control of the schools over to community-run local boards. Some such decentralization was ordered by New York's state legislature last...
Manchester's Urban Renewal Director Gary P. Davis puts it more bluntly: "Monuments just don't pay." Davis insists that parking facilities are essential for the 80 businesses that today occupy space in the mill's buildings. He is backed up almost 100% by Manchesterites, who are still bitter about the abrupt liquidation of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. in 1936, which threw some 11,000 of the town's millhands out of work...
Checking the weather ought to be a basic precaution; yet the Coast Guard reports that an astonishing number of boaters pay it no heed. One day last fall, the forecast for Lake Michigan called for squalls and 40-m.p.h. winds. Nevertheless, hundreds of fishermen set out in search of coho salmon. When the storm hit, the Coast Guard did all the fishing, hauled 300 anglers and seven dead bodies from the water...