Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state-financed system that employs about 1 million workers and treats 30 million patients a year. Thatcher's plan, which must still be approved by Parliament, allows the best-managed of the nation's 2,000 state-run hospitals to form self-governing trusts that can hire outside staff, pay higher wages to . doctors and negotiate salaries for nursing personnel. The plan encourage doctors to shop around for the best prices on hospital services, and permits them to refer patients to hospitals outside their district...
...chord among middle-and lower-income Britons, who fear a future of progressively better services for an increasingly wealthy few. The issue goes to the heart of Britain's free-health-care system and moves the country toward medical treatment based largely on the patient's ability to pay. Says Paul Swain, a London hospital consultant: "A majority of people really like the NHS no matter how much they grumble about...
Icahn will extract a rich payoff. Texaco agreed to pay a special shareholder dividend of $2 billion, nearly $340 million of which will go to the raider. The money will come from the oil firm's $7 billion in proceeds from assets it has sold off since last June, partly at Icahn's urging...
...black employee who had been passed over for a promotion at General Motors. But by the time GM agreed to a settlement last week, the complaint had grown into a class-action suit representing some 10,000 workers, mostly clerical and managerial, who will reap millions of dollars in pay adjustments. The accusation: that GM's system for judging worker performance discriminated against blacks. "Evaluators were allowed to indulge their biases, conscious or unconscious," said Dennis James, lawyer for the plaintiffs...
While admitting no guilt, GM has agreed to pay more than $3 million in damages to 3,800 past and present employees, along with $13 million in pay raises for black workers whose salaries are most out of line with those of their white counterparts. The automaker has promised that future raises and promotions for blacks will keep pace with those for whites, a pledge that could cost $20 million to $40 million over the next few years...