Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area so vast, complete protection is impossible. Faced with heavy losses of forest, wildlife and recreational areas, however, the state is cracking down on those whose carelessness starts fires, when possible making them pay for the damage they cause. Next year the authorities may close dry areas altogether. In the meantime, huge chunks of Alaska are simply disappearing into smoke...
Veeck immediately launched a $1,000,000 refurbishing program. The facade of sickly Suffolk green was replaced with vibrant yellow along with occasional splashes of cool blue and hot red. He personally took a sledgehammer to the dingy rest rooms, did away with pay toilets, ripped the barbed wire off the fences, ordered 24 apple trees planted in the infield and reduced the admission fee to $1.50 for both the clubhouse and the grandstand. "Notice the new green carpet in the clubhouse," he readily tells passersby. "Color is so important...
...Barriers. However it is worked out, the textile controversy will affect the fabric of life in both nations, determining in part whether low-paid textile workers in the U.S. will be thrown out of jobs, whether inflation-weary U.S. consumers will have to pay more for their clothes, and whether the comfortably cooperative structure of Japanese industry will be changed and liberalized. More than that, the fight is likely to affect the future of the international movement toward freer trade...
Volume is a major reason for the low cost of mobile homes, which constitute the only truly industrialized housing available on a large scale in the U.S. today. Skyline's nonunionized workers commonly earn up to $12,000 a year because base pay is increased by an incentive system that keeps the men on the run along the production lines...
...payment of interest on borrowed money. Thus, Skyline's expansion has all come out of profits; it has no outstanding debt at all. Because of the tremendous need for low-cost housing, Decio can name his own terms. When his dealers order mobile homes, for example, they must pay in advance -an unusual practice in any industry where each unit for sale represents a large investment of cash...