Word: paying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disrupt the nation's commerce as much as possible. Warned Oscar Williams, an official of the Independent Truckers Association (30,000 members): "I can predict that when housewives in the major cities go to market and cannot find peaches, cherries or fresh meat, or find they have to pay double for these goods, there will be one hellacious uproar heard in Washington...
...relief. They argued that cumbersome federal regulations have long favored the big trucking companies, which are not on strike, and discriminated against smaller owners. Under federal rules, to carry anything except agricultural products, the independents must drive under contract to the big companies. When they hire out, they must pay the company between 30% and 50% of their gross returns...
That means it won't pay off its cost for nearly 30 years, not counting interest or inflation...
...year period. Only about $85 million of this would go to Panama; the rest would be used to compensate American workers forced to leave the zone and, most important, to move U.S. defense facilities out of the area. Calling the treaties a giveaway, House conservatives argued that Panama should pay all the costs...
...effort for the bill, and claimed to have converted 15 Congressmen. He needed every one. Despite the clear danger that U.S. relations with Panama-and the treaties themselves-could be plunged into chaos by a defeat, the Administration narrowly survived a series of votes. One proposal, requiring Panama to pay $75 million a year as part of the total transfer costs, was defeated by just three votes. Final passage approving Murphy's compromise was 224 to 202. The bill now goes to the Senate, where conservatives are planning to launch yet another attack on the beleaguered treaties...