Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President is readying a package of reforms to fulfill his campaign pledge to improve Government ethics. The sweetener for Congress would be a pay raise, though Bush is unlikely to specify an amount. In exchange, Bush would probably call for a ban on speaking fees and strict limits on the use of campaign funds for office or personal expenses. He might call for an outright ban on political-action committees that are connected to labor or business groups. To head off a congressional outcry about the lost sources of campaign funds, the President may propose raising the $1,000 limit...
...lucrative speaking fees paid by special-interest groups are euphemistically labeled) are being considered by a bipartisan House panel. The plan considered most likely to succeed would gradually phase out speaking fees as House and Senate salaries increased from their present level of $89,500. Thus a 7% pay raise would be accompanied by a 7% lowering in the earnings allowed from speeches, which at present are 30% of salary for a House member and 40% for a Senator...
Foley also suggests that the traditional linking of Government salaries should be ended, and judicial and Executive pay be considered separately from that of legislators. In that, he is responding to pressure from judges and the White House, which has expressed concern about the departures of several highly skilled professionals, particularly from NASA and the National Institutes of Health. The latest loss: H. Robert Heller, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, who resigned last week, citing his stagnant pay...
...This is a notable victory in the war on drugs." The rulings were denounced, however, by defense attorneys who fear that the fate of both their livelihood and their clients may depend on the whim of law-enforcement officials. "No one who has law school loans, a mortgage to pay and kids to feed can afford to practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Noted University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "The decisions will chill a lot of lawyers' interest in representing defendants in the very type of complex...
...morning after igniting the riot, Mookie slinks back to demand that Sal pay him his week's wages. Behind the camera, Lee wants the same thing: to create a riot of opinion, then blame viewers for not getting the message he hasn't bothered to articulate. Though the strategy may lure moviegoers this long hot summer, it is ultimately false and pernicious. Faced with it, even Mister Senor Love Daddy might say, "Take a hike, Spike...