Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where they sent relatives a postcard explaining what they had done. From Vienna, the West German embassy sent them to a transit camp near Munster in the Federal Republic, where Olaf was quickly offered a roofing job in nearby Ochtrup. He finds the money much better than his old pay -- 18 West German marks ($9.50) an hour, vs. 5.4 East German marks ($2.85 at the official exchange rate). "The materials, equipment and technology are as different as night and day," says Olaf. "Here you use cranes and power drills. There, muscle, hammer and chisel...
...Residents of the Edgewood Independent school district, a poor, largely Hispanic area in west San Antonio, are willing to pay for good schools. Property taxes are high -- almost $1 per $100 of assessed valuation. But because the district encompasses part of a tax-exempt Air Force base and lacks tony subdivisions, the tax rate translates into $3,596 per student. In the Santa Gertrude school district, located on the oil-rich King Ranch in south Texas, property taxes are low -- only 8 cents per $100 of assessed valuation -- but the total spent per student...
ETHICS: Who should pay the bill for AIDS...
...three of the past four years. Says Chairman Jerry Pearlman: "We are a highly leveraged company in two very tough businesses. We really felt we couldn't do either of them appropriate justice." Pearlman had tried to sell the company's TV division, but no buyers were willing to pay the reported $400 million asking price...
...should foot the bill for the disease, which now afflicts an estimated 44,000 Americans. And the tab is rising. This year the cost for AIDS medical care is expected to be $3.75 billion; by 1992 that figure is likely to more than double. Whose responsibility is it to pay for AIDS-related care? And why does American society, on the whole, seem to be shrinking from the task...