Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coming to Vassar, Vassar College Government Association, Free with payment of tuition deposit...
...clubs. Congress appropriated $67.3 billion, or $6 billion less than Ike's original $73.3 billion total. But, argued the Budget Bureau, Ike himself cut roughly $2 billion from that $73.3 billion, partly by trimming spending estimates, partly by scrapping or postponing some of the listed programs (e.g., military payment adjustments). So Congress cut only $4 billion, then? No, according to the Budget Bureaucrats. They easily brought the $4 billion down to $1 billion by subtracting 1) cuts of $1.9 billion that the bureau considered phony (example: Congress "saved" $211 million by assuming that veterans' benefits in fiscal...
...Fascist pre-military course, to demand an uncollected registration fee: 55 centesimi (.088 of a cent). And not long ago at great output of bureaucratic labor, the government began paying off Sicilians for damage inflicted by troops of King Francis II during Garibaldi's campaign in 1860. Biggest payment: one-tenth of a cent...
...income projects, which do not carry their part of the tax load, without balancing them with middle-income accommodations, which do. One reason for the flight to the suburbs-with its attrition of city revenues and business-is that families find it easier, once they have a down payment, to pay for a house than for a high-priced city apartment...
Doctors concede that insurance plans have helped provide prompt payment of bills, but many also complain that patients who receive insurance checks direct spend them for other things, leaving the doctor to wait for his fee. All doctors agree that the most urgently indicated treatment is fewer and simpler forms. Says one: "It would be the greatest headache remedy since aspirin...