Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without admitting guilt, Harris said it would pay $14 million in back wages to thousands of workers. Nancy Kreiter, research director for a women's advocacy group that helped push the lawsuit, called the settlement "a fabulously sweet victory." But even before last week's decision, the bank had come a long way. In 1977 Harris had five women vice presidents. Today...
...which strongly opposes an increase, raising the levy would hit Wyoming the hardest of any state. The A.A.A. estimated that a 50 * cents-per-gal. increase, which is at the high end in the range of proposals, would cost the typical Wyoming motorist $412 a year. New Yorkers would pay $282 more and Washington drivers an additional $198. Says Doug Todd, a Republican state senator in Arizona: "We ought to have a lynching party standing by, and if that Eastern bunch of spendthrifts gets it passed, hang a few of 'em from the nearest on ramp...
Even though an increased tax may be healthy policy in the long run, most U.S. motorists see it as bitter medicine. Americans hold this view even though they pay an average of only 92.6 cents per gal., including all taxes, which is one of the lowest levels in the world -- and below 1950 prices after inflation is deducted. In a TIME survey conducted last week by the opinion firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, nearly three-quarters of those polled said they opposed any tax boost to reduce the budget deficit. A nearly equal number acknowledged, however, that an increase seemed likely...
State legislators maintain that federal fuel taxes should be used only to pay for roads and bridges, as they mostly are now, and not to cut the deficit. Besides, with taxes already ranging from Georgia's 7.5 cents per gal. to Wisconsin's 20.9 cents, state leaders are worried that a higher U.S. levy would restrict their ability to increase their own rates. Georgia Governor Joe Frank Harris has proposed a 6 cents raise in his state's 7.5 cents tax, and last week Governor Michael Dukakis asked for a 6 cents increase in Massachusetts' 11 cents levy to help...
...pleasure of lighting the White House Christmas tree a month late; Carter had left the tree dark as a symbolic acknowledgment of the crisis. In the years that followed, Reagan sent a great deal of welcome electricity into the nation's circuitry. Now Bush must figure out how to pay the power bill...