Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buck adds that when Harvard undergraduates had to pay to take a fifth or sixth course, many students took classes for degree during the summer. During that time courses remained in the curriculum regardless of student interest...
When undergraduate attendance at the Summer School dropped in the 1970s, the program began a policy of open admissions. Anyone who applies--and who can pay the $975 fee for each course--may attend summer classes...
...Pierce gently, he scoffed at the claims of some prominent Republicans that the huge fees they received from developers for their influence in obtaining HUD contracts had not hurt taxpayers. The department, he testified, had given developers "a reason to hire a consultant" and then provided "the money to pay the consultant's fees." Moreover, he said, private brokers who handled house sales for HUD and then failed to turn the money over to the Government were not "Robin Hood-type heroes . . . robbing the rich. They are stealing from the taxpayer and depriving low- and moderate- income people...
...Burnham Lambert will raise $6.4 billion through a junk- bond issue, and Bankers Trust will assemble a consortium of banks to provide the rest. Yet B.A.T investors would get no cash for their 1.5 billion shares. Instead, Goldsmith and his partners, bidding through a company called Hoylake Investments, would pay B.A.T shareholders a combination of Hoylake stock and loan chits worth $13.82 a share (B.A.T stock was trading at 11.28 in London before the deal was announced). Hoylake would pay down the debts by selling off B.A.T's retailing and finance holdings...
NASA's budget will have to be raised to pay for such an ambitious program, perhaps even doubled from its current $11 billion a year. That will be hard in an era of budget deficits. But there is support for a Mars mission in both the House and the Senate. If the President comes out strongly for the mission, Congress should be able to find a way to fund it. One option: to siphon the money from Star Wars and other questionable defense programs...