Word: paye
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There does not seem much left to sacrifice. As it is now constituted, the Post Office is the Government's basket case. There is a 23% average turnover in personnel every year; 85% of all employees are in the five lowest pay grades. Operations are guided by a vast hodgepodge of rules and regulations that fill a 9½lb. volume. The accumulated need for facilities and equipment exceeds $5 billion; yet the proposed construction of any major postal facility usually takes eight to ten years to win congressional approval...
...cashier's error (32% of the young); 16% say that they have taken an employer's supplies or equipment without his permission; 13% have ignored parking tickets (20% of the college-educated); 12% have walked out of a store with something they didn't pay for (23% of the young); and 10% have failed to return borrowed library books (18% of the young...
...rich man who uses loopholes to pay little or no income tax is worse than a welfare chiseler...
...been dropped. One provided: "No one shall be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman for the death of any person except her husband." Another proclaimed: "If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age." The legislation introduced in Parliament will repeal ten other clauses that have either gone unenforced in recent years or have been superseded by new laws. Among them is one that ordered the removal of all weirs (dams...
More than 100,000 will pay $7.95 for the latest edition of his Guide, a 1,485-page, 909,000-word primer for peripatetics that weighs 2 lbs. 3½oz. Another 100,000 budget-minded tourists will spend $2.25 for Fielding's Super-Economy Europe; the rest of the Fielding five-foot shelf (he is his own publisher) includes a European shopping guide, time and currency converters and a guidebook to the Caribbean. Temp operates Temple Fielding's Epicure Club ?which, for $15.50 a year, guarantees the insecure traveler a somewhat phony VIP welcome...