Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles, "And Now a Word about Commercials" and "Healing by Tinkering" expose the appalling attitude of the citizenry of this, the richest country, toward their fellow citizens. Apparently the American public is willing to pay, via the marketplace, a hidden tax on its beer, cigarettes, detergents and automobiles to support $22,000-per-minute television commercials, but is unwilling to pay for the vitally needed equipment or manpower to save the lives of more than a slim handful of the 20,000 or more Americans who develop a treatable kidney disease each year...
Whatever course the Soviet Union ultimately takes in handling the Czechoslovak crisis - from inaction to armed intervention-it will have to pay dearly. If Moscow chooses muscle, it will not only antagonize most of the non-Communist world but will also alienate many Communist countries and national parties. If it permits Dubček to proceed, his sweeping reforms are bound to spread elsewhere and further weaken Russia's hold over its Communist neighbors. The Kremlin is caught in an enormous dilemma and. no matter what it does, the shape and strength of what used to be called...
...visit. "And all I desire now is a modest retreat where I can read and reflect. I'd like to be able to chat with a shepherd in a field at sundown and munch hard-boiled eggs." With that, she asked the town fathers to let her pay for the restoration of Bargème's ruins and take up residence in the town...
High Price. One big incentive behind the hunt for Big Daddy is the price on his head. Miami's Tycoon/Fin-Nor Corp. will pay $5,000 to the first angler who lands a 1,000-lb. blue marlin on its fishing tackle; there is another $1-per-lb. reward if the fish is caught off the Virgin Islands, and $10,000 if it is boated off Puerto Rico...
...ideology pervasive in all stories. A critic took exception to an off-Broadway play, The American Pig, which ridicules life in the U.S. "The idea of satirizing vulgarity by being more vulgar backfires," wrote the critic. "If you murder art-somebody is going to pay for it." In the old days, it would have been rank heresy for a Communist to value art above social content...