Word: paying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration has eased some of the cumbersome federal regulations that discriminate against independent truckers. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission increased from 6% to 7% the surcharge it requires trucking firms to pay the owner-operators they hire. The Government urged states to allow heavier loads so that the truckers can make more money. Vice President Walter Mondale made a plea to the strikers to "get this country moving again." Scoffed Mike Parkhurst, president of the ITA: "Tomorrow the ice is going to trot out another little carrot on the end of a stick. It will still be unacceptable...
...million. In Florida some farmers face ruin unless 2,000 truckers can be found to ship $50 million in produce to Northern markets. An estimated 45% of the state's $30 million watermelon crop has been spoiled. Produce brokers are offering up to 35% above normal pay to anyone willing to haul produce, and about 90% of the Southern harvest is being moved. Says Jack Gilchrist of the Georgia department of agriculture: "We were right on the edge of catastrophe when things changed for us. They are improving every...
...sold is above the official ceiling. Prices have ranged from the official rates of around $1 to as high as $1.70 per gal. at a few stations in New York City and Boston. Some station owners have justified these rates by saying that they had to pay more than $1.25 to wholesalers, but most were charging what the market would bear-i.e., a black market. The major oil companies are not involved in the black market. "We have too many auditors looking over their shoulders," says a DOE regulator...
...lobbying was polite but unbudgeable Congressman Hyde. As members of the clergy clustered about him, Hyde said calmly: "I'm for everyone to follow the dictates of their conscience. But a constitutional right to want something doesn't mean the right to have the Government pay for it." As the debate warmed up, Hyde tossed out one of his favorite lines: "There are 1 million children who are thrown away like Kleenex because someone thinks that they are not as valuable as a snail darter." Hyde brushed aside all counterarguments. "Taking a human life with the taxpayers...
...Sino-Vietnamese whom China has admitted in recent months have come from northern Viet Nam, where the Communists took power in 1954. Asked the paper: "How was the [25-year-old] socialist transformation served by dismissing Chinese from their jobs, forcing them to retire, demoting them and reducing their pay, cutting their food rations and even detaining and arresting them?" And finally, it might have added, by sending them to a watery grave...