Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right now, negotiations are being completed on a $28,000 house near Central Square. The $9000 needed for down payment has already been donated anonymously...
...John Krizay of the 20th Century Fund points out, the determination of doctors' fees is simply "not in the marketplace." Doctors, he notes, can and do create their own demand for their services. One way around that fact is to abandon the fee-for-service method of payment entirely and put doctors on salary; one way to accomplish that is to put health care on a prepayment basis...
Trade in Children. The thief-taking racket had limitless possibilities; the constabulary of the time was weak, criminals were many, and Parliament had authorized payment of 40 ? for evidence in a capital case. This system of rewards was intended to break up London's big gangs by making betrayal profitable. The trouble was that although there were some 350 capital offenses on the books, it was not always easy or politic to lay hands on those who had actually committed them. This led naturally to frame-ups, and also to a brisk trade in children and other innocents...
Other stopped-payment checks were signed by three current Harvard students, two current Radcliffe students, and one recent graduate of Radcliffe. One of the students, Joseph Rothchild '74, asked why he stopped payment on his $180 check, said last night that he decided not to use his bus ticket, and instead used a train ticket which a friend had obtained for him. He also said that he had thrown away the original ticket, and when asked why he did not adhere to the usual procedure of returning the tickets to the seller, said that "things were really pretty confused...
...unclear at this time whether or not NPAC will prosecute those who stopped payment on their checks. "We have just begun to talk this over with our lawyers and we're not quite sure what we'll do with the evidence we've collected so far," Finnan said. "The real crime of this is that they're hurting the antiwar effort by this sort of thing. We use the money from any profits we make to subsidize tickets for people who can't afford them, and although we were still able to do that this last time...