Word: payed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberals should hate rent control because it violates every principle they purport to embrace. It contributes to the housing shortage and to homelessness. It benefits those who need it least and forces the expense on those who can least afford to pay...
...response to widespread concern over the effects of development in Cambridge, the City Council last night initiated a plan that would require commercial developers to help pay for new affordable housing in the city...
Under current law, all construction projects which require special permits pay a fee of of two dollars per square foot to the affordable housing fund...
...rushing in to assume the financial burden. "Everyone is playing duck and cover while trying to shield themselves from the costs," observes Ronald Brunk of AIDS Benefits Counselors in San Francisco. This year federal and state programs will pay 40% of the bill, with private insurers taking care of another 40%. The remaining 20% falls in the "self pay" -- often meaning "no pay" -- category. The most important government program, Medicaid, is available only to impoverished patients. As a result, those infected with the AIDS virus frequently must "spend down" into poverty, demonstrating that they hold assets of less than...
...north, more than 20,000 Canadian vehicles are powered by compressed natural gas, which virtually eliminates the sources of smog. The relatively low price of the fuel -- some 80 cents per gal., vs. $1.75 for gasoline -- tempts bus and taxi owners to pay the $2,500 that it costs to convert a vehicle to natural gas. In Washington the American Gas Association calls the fuel "a viable option for fleets." One drawback: to carry the gas, vehicles must be fitted with bulky tanks. In a cross-border experiment, Canada's Ontario Bus Industries and Brooklyn Union Gas are testing...