Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over 400 of the plant's workers brought a $100 million suit against the company and the government in 1974. That suit has been settled out of court for $20 million, including a government payment of over $5 million. The government payments may mark the first time the government has been held liable in such a case...
...protect the offices against attacks by street mobs. The top management of a French heavy-machinery company in the Paris suburbs changed the locks on their factory doors to prevent a lockout by workers. Commercial transactions were being carried out mainly on a day-to-day basis, with immediate payment demanded. In the vast government ministries, the bureaucracy meandered, as decisions were postponed until after the elections...
...lent up to $500 each to some 1,000 District 17 miners at interest of 1% a month, payable within a year after the strike ends. In addition, Cabin Creek stores, following the tradition of the coal fields, are extending credit to the miners and not pressing them for payment, even though most of the merchants are also hurting financially. Close by Cabin Creek, business at the Marmet Furniture Store is off 50%. Down the road, employees of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers have had their workday cut from eight hours to five. At the Marmet Burger Chef...
...major objection to the PIRG petitioning in the houses was the so-called "negative checkoff" provision, which adds a fee of $5 per semester to each undergraduate's term bill unless the student checks a box which exempts him from payment...
...terms of hard cash, ratified treaties would hardly be a panacea. The canal now contributes, indirectly, some $250 million a year to the economy in the form of wages of Panamanians, local purchases by the U.S. Government, and so forth. Panama gets $2.3 million in an annual payment from the U.S. for the right to run the canal. After ratification, the Torrijos government would get a cut of canal operations. It is counting on $60 million the first year, rising to $90 million annually by the year 2000. That presumes a 30% increase in canal tolls. But tolls have already...