Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some $3.4 billion a year in gasoline taxes is already being spent to build the Interstate Highway System. When the system is finished in 1973, Moynihan would simply raise the gas tax a penny or so a gallon and switch the revenue to insurance, for which motorists would pay no other premium...
...much discussed mixed system geared to the U.S. is now being advocated by Law Professors Robert E. Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois. In their book After Cars Crash, they propose a novel form of auto insurance called "Basic Protection," which would pay benefits more widely and efficiently, yet preserve both private enterprise and the right to file lawsuits for severe injury and economic loss...
First off, she took to the streets, distributing cards printed with her name and hotel address to every policeman she saw. She also made a tour of precinct stations, explaining to all who would listen that she would pay $10 to $15 for each cape delivered to her hotel. When she caught wind of an anti-American rally outside the U.S. embassy, she sensed a windfall. She raced to the scene, handed out her cards-and by evening some 50 flics had marched into the hotel, capes in hand. The concierge collaborated willingly. "Whenever I was out and another batch...
...Pay Now, Go Later. When the plane touched down in Miami, the cabin rang with cheers and applause. And why not? Though the flight took four hours (v. 2 hrs. 15 min. for a jet), club members were paying only $111 each for round-trip air fare, two days of food and lodging, and a ticket to the game -nearly one-third less than the cheapest Super Bowl package offered by the airlines. And one economy leads to another. Social Worker John Butler, 58, joined the Roamers in early December, "so I could do my Christmas shopping in St. Croix...
Biggest of all the airplane-owning private travel groups in the U.S. is Washington-based Club Internationale, with 17,000 members in 35 cities. Unlike the others, it operates on the principle of "pay now, go later." Members kick in $995 in weekly installments over a three-year period. In each of the first two years, they are entitled to a ten-day vacation in the Caribbean or Central America. The third year brings the big payoff: 20 days in Europe...