Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monday morning would come and Wall Street would be desolate, the first casualty of the commuter strike. Simultaneous strikes in other cities would paralyze the nation. Maybe even the world. All because the Eastern machinists wouldn't take a mere 50 percent pay cut. The nerve of them...
...Tower's just-say-no theatrics pale in comparison with the price paid by Louis Sullivan, who was approved last week as Secretary of Health and Human Services. To avoid possible confirmation complications, Sullivan renounced all claims to nearly $500,000 in severance pay and deferred compensation legally owed him by the Morehouse School of Medicine. Even Senate Democrats wondered aloud if Sullivan's excessive concern with appearances did not overstep the bounds of financial prudence. Meanwhile, George Bush's ethics commission solemnly debated whether a top Government official should be entitled to royalties if he composed a hit song...
...Friday Eastern won permission from a U.S. district court to order I.A.M. workers to take a day off with pay. Citing "significant amounts of vandalism" at Eastern facilities last month, Joseph Leonard, chief operating officer of the airline, said the carrier was concerned that if the angry union members were not sent home they would engage in sabotage...
...beef consumption in the U.S. has fallen from 94.2 lbs. in 1976 to 72.7 lbs. last year. The Japanese investment should also be a boon for Americans who sell supplies and expertise to the new beef barons. Says John Morse, president of Selkirk Ranch: "The Japanese are willing to pay a premium for people who will raise beef the way they want to produce...
...uncovered the scheme were squelched over the years by PASOK officials, says Koskotas, twice by direct calls from Papandreou. In the summer of 1988, the government muscled through a special Secrecy Act that had the effect of guaranteeing its overdrawn banker financial confidentiality. Koskotas says he was directed to pay an additional $2 million to then Deputy Prime Minister Koutsogiorgas as a reward for managing the legislation...