Word: payed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials say their primary mission is to defeat the Sendero movement. "Wherever drug traffickers get close to the guerrillas, we will get them," says one. "But don't ask us to go against the people growing coca." Another obstacle is corruption. DEA agents and Upper Huallaga residents say traffickers pay "landing fees" to certain police officials to use local airstrips...
...seems this particular set of checks came from Joey's Pan Am-affiliated MasterCard. It's one of the many airline-affiliated Visas or MasterCards that give you a frequent-flyer mile free for every dollar you charge, even if you pay your balance in full within the grace period. To a frequent-flyer junkie, these cards are irresistible...
...eventual cost of this year's bailout expenditures by an estimated $3 billion over the next three decades. That is because the off-budget money will have to be borrowed by the Resolution Funding Corporation, the Government agency responsible for restructuring the thrift industry, which will have to pay investors higher interest rates than the Treasury pays for on-budget borrowing. As a result, the S & L rescue's first installment is a case of bail now, pay later...
...firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert pleaded guilty to lesser charges last year and was hit with $650 million in penalties. Equally troubling to RICO targets is the law's ability to seize temporarily the assets of an accused before a trial begins -- even funds that would be used to pay a defense attorney. "Suddenly, there are a lot of born-again civil libertarians on Wall Street," says Michael Waldman, legislative director for Public Citizen Congress Watch...
Never mind country dachas or four-door Ladas. Soviet authorities figure the best incentive for greater agricultural yields is U.S. dollars or British pounds or German marks. Under an experimental program announced last week, the government will pay foreign cash to growers on state-run farms for excess harvests of wheat and other crops. The hard cash will enable farmers to purchase goods that no amount of rubles can buy, such as sophisticated farm equipment -- or videotape recorders...