Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation, we still enjoy the lowest food costs (in terms of annual income of consumers) of any industrial nation. True, hunger stalks half the world, but the U.S. farmer will not gain much by giving food away-the good feeling one gets from acts of charity will not help pay off the implement and fertilizer companies. Perhaps what concerns me the most is that a city slum dweller with an income of less than $3,000 a year becomes a prime target for the War on Poverty; but a farmer with a net income of less than...
...based Reuters have swapped domestic news in order to avoid setting up duplicate bureaus in both countries. But the deal became lopsided as more news originated in the U.S. and less in Britain. Last year the A.P. demanded an extra fee from Reuters to continue the arrangement. Rather than pay, Reuters decided to expand its own small news-gathering operation in the U.S. Similarly, last April A.P. linked up with Dow-Jones to provide an international financial news service, a field in which it had no serious rivals. Reuters replied by challenging Dow-Jones...
...Army has indicated that it wants 600 of the craft, for which it would pay about $1,000,000 apiece. The final decision, however, rests with the Department of Defense. Should the defense order come through, Lockheed will have funds to permit further exploitation of the AH-56A design. Company Chairman Daniel J. Haughton thinks there will be a good foreign market for the Cheyenne, and Lockheed engineers are already studying a 30-passenger commercial version called the CL-1026 for intracity travel. Beyond that, the company envisions a 90-passenger model that could cruise at 500 m.p.h. over...
They put us on pro, the price we had to pay...
...Thomas," Fisher says, "and there were Anguillians--who lived in Anguilla but worked in St. Thomas--lined up waiting for a charter plane to take them over and back at $15 a head each way to go and vote. They were using half a week's pay and losing a day just to vote. And of course a lot of them couldn't get there because there was not enough space on the plane--it takes 40 minutes each way from St. Thomas. But one of them gave me his seat knowing he wanted me down; it was a little...