Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retain his salary and to give him legal help as he fights to clear his name. When the council refused to grant him these conditions, MacDonald vowed that he would not vacate his elective position after all. The council then voted to place MacDonald on indefinite leave, with pay. The Navajos had never before questioned the conduct of one of their chairmen, assuming each had only the best interests of his followers in mind...
...companies carry an ominous obligation that they have never really acknowledged on their books: the health-care benefits promised to retirees. Unlike pension plans, which are backed by investment funds, companies usually pay for retiree health-insurance costs as they occur...
...apology might be accepted, and still later it dismissed the previous comment as the personal opinion of one of its employees. At the same time, the news agency reported that a local newspaper had denounced the offer of money to anyone who would kill Rushdie, observing that "to pay one man to kill another man is murder at a premium and not a religiously inspired act." This remarkable display of vacillation, played out in the dispatches from Tehran, suggested that pragmatists in Iran had begun a campaign to control the damage caused by the Ayatullah's earlier pronouncement...
...critics also fail to mention that they themselves often make the rounds on the talk show circuit. Broder, who supported the legislators in their attempt to get a raise, is frequently heard on The Larry King Show. While the pay-raise controversy raged, legislators could also be heard on the shows they later condemned...
...pay raise incident brings up a very important fact about talk radio: critics don't take into account the fact that the opinions voiced on talk radio actually reflect popular opinion. They seem to think that the talk show hosts generate the issues themselves...