Word: paye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bridwell promised last month that the federal government would pay 100 per cent of the cost of the supports for the platform, but the City would have to pay for the platform itself. The cost of the platform--perhaps as much as $8 to $10 a foot--might make the construction of any but luxury apartments an impossibility...
This weekend in Washington several hundred American citizens were beaten, tear-gassed, and incarcerated by officials and soldiers whose salaries they help pay. It was the bloodiest clash in the nation's capital since General MacArthur's troops routed the Bonus Army at Anacostia Flats...
...University has indicated that because of its complex budgeting procedures all the Houses, Mather included, will have to pay for themselves. The total upkeep of the Houses will have to be balanced by the rents collected from students. If, as is to be hoped, no one is forced back to the campus and the rooms are thus filled with men from other Houses, this position amounts to a demand for a raise in room rents...
...conference's summary report, inevitably, stressed generalities. It urged each nation to collect "accurate and up-to-date information about its students, teachers, income and expenditures," set up colleges to train professional school administrators, pay its best teachers as much as it pays any of its other professionals. More concretely, the scholars called for less emphasis on traditional classical education, which "only prepares a student for the ranks of the unemployed," and recommended creation of a new international consortium of agencies to channel money into the schools of needy nations...
Matthew Josephson, now 68, is perhaps best remembered for his muckraking classic, The Robber Barons, a gallery of the "malefactors of great wealth" who dominated the second half of the 19th century in the U.S. The theme was full of pay dirt for the propagandist, but Josephson, one of the few radicals who had any notion of how American business actually worked, wrote with authority. Infidel in the Temple is an attempt to evoke the spirit of the Depression years, but the effect is only that of an endless documentary spliced from old newsreels, with a commentary by the author...