Word: paying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feels that conventional pumps will help encourage citizens to take her seriously. Joe Viens remembers a voter who came in to remind the mayor of his campaign support, then presented a traffic ticket to be fixed. Viens said sorry, the only way he could help would be to pay the fine out of his own pocket. "Good," said the man, "you do that." A local eccentric dropped into Doutrich's office, chatted for a while and then pulled a revolver. Visions of the Moscone assassination in San Francisco flashed through Hizzonor's mind. But the gun was empty...
Pihl said that because the summer program is well-managed, it has "little overhead, no dead wood." It does not have to pay for extra facilities the way the University does during the academic year, he added...
...phone call at 2 in the morning in Japan to say that five of your senior employees have quit causes some soul searching. It made us realize that we needed a better pension plan and a more equitable pay structure for our employees," Eckstein said. The ordinary DRI employee will benefit from the sale, he said...
Good theater is not cheap, and Boston may not be willing to pay. Broadway shows have started bypassing Boston on their tryouts because of insufficient audience support. In the past few years, moderately priced suburban dinner theaters have lured many patrons away from the $25 tickets and distasteful proximity to the combat zone. Observes Friedberg: "Boston is a city with champagne tastes and beer pocketbooks." It is also a city where social climbing is just not done in Symphony Hall. Unlike younger cities, Boston has class that is bred on Beacon Hill, not bought with hefty contributions to the arts...
...Boston manages to complete a palace of culture or two, its next problem will be to find people to fill the seats. Opening the box office windows is not enough. Theater, dance, opera and musical companies throughout the country are rapidly discovering that survival means subscriptions. Patrons who will pay for four or five performances well in advance mean, quite literally, money in the bank, and a performing group has the security of knowing that it will have an audience for experimental works, not just Pavarotti or Horowitz. Admits Ruth Hider, New York City Opera director of operations: "We couldn...