Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view from your office so nice that you should be charged admission? In Hartford, companies are being asked to pay a voluntary fee of $10-per-window for the privilege of gazing upon the vintage architecture and serene greenery of the Old State House building, which is now home to a museum. Wilson Faude, the statehouse's executive director, came up with the view tax as a fund- raising gimmick. The total panes with a view...
...decision overturned a lower-court victory by the Murphy Door Bed Co. of Amityville, N.Y. The firm claimed that a former Murphy distributor had illegally called his product the "original" Murphy bed. The appeals court ordered the distributor to pay damages for competing unfairly and violating an agreement to stop using the word original. But the judges held that the term Murphy bed can be used by any manufacturer...
Pittston cut off the miners' health benefits and hired "replacement workers," the new euphemism for scabs. The union is providing a limited medical plan and giving the strikers $200 a week in subsistence pay. Pittston says the men must face the facts of today's coal market; the miners argue that Pittston is "treacherously" trying to break the union...
Last week Sorrell was on the attack again, singling out one of the oldest and most venerable names in U.S. advertising. In an unwelcome bid, the Briton proposed to pay $730 million to acquire the Ogilvy Group, which owns Ogilvy & Mather, the fifth largest U.S. advertising firm. The agency, which created the Man in the Hathaway Shirt campaign and today's sleek celebrity ads for American Express, has been independent since it was founded in 1948. If Sorrell were to succeed in taking over Ogilvy, his combined empire (estimated annual billings: $13.5 billion) would rank a close second to Britain...
...follows. But in a country that cannot provide enough housing or food for its people, preserving and restoring antiquities is far from the top of the domestic political agenda. The budget this year for archaeological preservation is a mere $6 million, virtually all of it from the fees tourists pay to visit the monuments and museums...