Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control is a matter of national welfare. All that is at stake in the Boggs case is dreams. We do not care whether our car mechanic, say, is a philanderer, so long as he does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players to entertain us, to inspire us with feats of self-transcendence, to do the things that we can only dream of doing -- like hitting a 100-m.p.h. fast ball or leaping over fences to make the catch that saves the day. By those standards Boggs...
...girl, college students, are seated in the campus hangout, holding hands, deep in conversation. The girl confides that she will spend the weekend with her biology professor; it is, alas, the price she must pay for a passing grade in biology. Same old soap opera, same old dilemma, and as with all such troubles, matters will eventually straighten out and soon worse crises will occur...
Since only a few hard-core ideologues still believe that lowering marginal tax rates produces an actual increase in revenues, Lindsey had to content himself by telling the gathered students that lowering the top marginal rates makes the rich pay a larger share of the nation's total tax bill...
...contractor, Teledyne Industries Inc., agreed to pay more than $4.3 million in penalties and to satisfy other claims in the case. saying a former employee who pleaded guilty earlier "had entered into a corrupt and illegal arrangement" with two others who still face charges...
...company agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties, $2.08 million in civil claims and $786,000 to reimburse the government for the cost of the investigation...