Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Televised courses can be a bargain for financially strapped schools. A district may pay as much as $8,000 for a satellite dish, cordless phones and the electronic keypads or computer terminals needed for students to communicate with their long-distance teachers. That one-time outlay amounts to far less than a conventional teacher's annual salary. Like network anchors, video teachers submit to screen tests and often conduct their classes without a studio audience...
...system that Gorbachev's perestroika and Deng Xiaoping's "Four Modernizations" seek to reform. But in China factory workers have shunned colleagues who earned incentive bonuses, or gone on strike to prevent introduction of such bonuses. Their proletarian comrades in the Soviet Union have reportedly downed tools for higher pay, while others burned a prosperous collective that raised pigs because it was too successful. In Poland the economic program of Solidarity runs directly counter to any efforts at reform. It demands higher wages, stable prices and job security. In China efforts to decentralize decision making have resulted in economic anarchy...
...lying to and obstructing congressional investigating committees; in Washington. Each charge upon conviction carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment and $250,000 in fines. Secord was convicted in a Virginia court of drunk driving. He was given a suspended 30-day jail sentence and ordered to pay a $200 fine...
...loss in state pension funds, he persuaded lawmakers to raise taxes on groceries and gasoline. He introduced an innovative health- cost-containment plan for state employees, arranged for payment of West Virginia's debts and put through his own radical restructuring of the state's education system, including larger pay increases to teachers and new bonds for school construction...
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. That's where the problem is. Are you going to build a city to accommodate more black people? Why? They don't pay taxes. Are you going to build a school system to accommodate the children of poor black people? Why? They'll want your job. They don't pay taxes...