Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Axtmans sold the farm, bought a three-bedroom, split-level home and have cash of close to $100,000. We, who have not had the good fortune to be "victims of agribusiness," wonder: Why have we been forced to contribute to the payment of subsidies...
...babies, Noel Keane, the Dearborn attorney who placed the ad for the childless couple, checked with Wayne County juvenile court for an informal opinion. Judge James Lincoln said yes, a volunteer could legally bear a child for the couple to adopt, but no, the law did not allow the payment of fees to the mother for the service. Suddenly the reservoir of surrogates dried up. Explains Keane: "We don't have any of them now. As it turns out, all of them were interested in money...
...Angola altogether or moved in much more forcefully in the beginning. Eventually, he says, a "dualism" about the operation developed: "The people in the field were going all out. But back home, people gradually got timid." When the agency finally decided to pull out, it sent a final payment of $1,376,700 in conscience money to Roberto and Savimbi through Kinshasa. The cash, Stockwell claims, was pocketed by Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko...
This week, however, Geralds will be sentenced on a conviction of having embezzled $24,000 from a woman who was his legal client. According to the charges, he used $13,000 to buy stock and $11,000 as a down payment for an office building. He faces up to ten years in jail. Last month his license to practice law was lifted for three years. Since then, Geralds' sole income has been his $24,000 annual salary as a legislator. But, unlike any other Michigan lawmaker convicted of a felony in the state legislature's 143-year history...
...that have been growing explosively in recent years (see chart). The nibbles from those taxes come a little at a time every day or every payday and thus seem less aggravating. Only the property tax looms up once a year (or sometimes once a quarter) as a lump-sum payment of hundreds or thousands of dollars. As such, it is an easy target for people who often feel that the very homes they live in are being threatened...