Word: payed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson article last week stated that the Government Department would pay the late fees for students who did not turn in study cards because they could not find an advisor for senior tutorial. The department is only subsidizing the fee for adding Government...
DESPITE Spence's insistence that the hotel plan is the most efficient use of the land (revenue from the hotel will presumably pay for converting the site into office space some time early in the next century), one has to wonder why Spence so willfully opposed the wishes of the faculty he heads...
...brunt of cost consciousness falls on the cutters, who invariably take their lumps. They are routinely cheated of some time spent in the fields. They are expected to cut and stack one ton of cane an hour. Those who fall behind are "checked out," deprived of any pay they may have earned that day and sent back to their barracks, which in many cases resemble prison camps. As the ultimate penalty, laggards or troublemakers can always be deported...
Wilkinson, who has also written books about police work on Cape Cod and moonshine enforcement in North Carolina, finds and displays much genuine cause for outrage here, but he also brings back a richer, more complex story than he seems willing to acknowledge. Better pay and treatment from the growers might improve the cutters' lot, but nothing will ameliorate the reality of harvesting cane by hand. It is boring, backbreaking work, carried out in oppressive heat, surrounded by the dangers of poisonous snakes, fire ants and whirling, razor-sharp scythes. Some of those who suffer these miseries take pride...
...obscure professor's oddball approach to computer science, long neglected in the U.S., struck a cultural chord in Japan and is beginning to pay...