Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disability program offers few incentives to go back to work. The average monthly payment for a family is $325, but it can go as high as $1,089, and the payments are tax free. Six percent of last year's recipients increased the after-tax incomes they were receiving before their injuries. There is no income limit on who can be paid. The rich can collect along with the poor?and do. In such cases, the have-nots are being taxed to support the haves. Even though spending on rehabilitation services has doubled in seven years, from $575 per person...
...appointed military governor, Singa Boyenge Mosrmbry, tried to sound a positive note. "I am always an optimist," he said last week. "Next year the situation will be completely changed. The whites will be back by August or September." Perhaps so. But those who have remained are demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack and no faith...
Many Cambridge residents regard the University as being in the real estate business for profit. Although most rents are at the market level, Harvard owns an estimated $8 million worth of tax-exempt property in Cambridge, and makes a $507,000 in-lieu-of-tax payment. The situation in Boston is similar, except that Harvard pays no in-lieu-of-tax payment there and the value of exempt property is twice as high--an estimated $16 million. Harvard has not yet decided whether the corporation will handle Boston properties. The most publicized complaints, from Boston Fair Share and Cambridge community...
...delohated in the name of democracy, however, the lofty rhetoric is abandoned. Truong and Humphrey's trial may be interpreted by the Vietnamese government as a clear indication that the United States is neither ready nor willing to normalize relations, nor is our government willing to consider the payment of reparations...
...Payment of fees to mothers who put their children up for adoption is illegal in most states, but Keane thinks surrogate motherhood-using the husband's sperm-is a special case. This month he and an associate, Attorney Robert Harrison, took the issue to court; they asked a Wayne County circuit court judge to enjoin the state attorney general from interfering in the payment of fees to surrogate mothers. Says Harrison: "The question is, does the state have sufficient interest in this entire scheme which overrides the right of privacy and the right to bear and beget children...