Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1930s, and it posed a severe test of the value of the so-called moral-obligation bonds that the U.D.C. and other agencies have issued in recent years. The default posed the possibility that the agency could be besieged by a rush of lawsuits filed by creditors demanding immediate payment of its entire $1.1 billion in out standing bonded debt. Conceivably, such a siege could transform the U.D.C. 's problem from an embarrassing financial stumble into the largest municipal default in U.S. history...
...Aware that most state unemployment insurance programs do not cover such groups as farm laborers, domestics or Government employees. Congress decided three months ago to give those workers federal benefits for up to 26 weeks. The act provided, for payment to anyone who was not covered by state insurance but otherwise met the state's definition of unemployed. Astute educators read the fine print and asked an importunate question: Since those who teach in publicly supported schools or colleges are Government employees, are they not eligible for annual summer unemployment benefits when classes are not in session? The answer...
...resolve the matter. For the past decade, it has been trying and failing to replace the current copyright law, which dates from 1909, and this year it is expected finally to pass a new law. Many copyright experts favor some kind of compromise, for example, legislation providing for a payment by subscribing organizations that want the right to duplicate. But no one can predict whether Congress will choose that solution...
...associate professor, he took the Conference Center with him. In 1969 he was made dean of St. John's and the next year spent his spare time teaching Plato's Republic to Congressmen and other notable Washingtonians, each of whom gave a lecture at the college as payment in kind. Later, Goldwin held a class for capital journalists on the writings of John Locke, the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation. Says Washington Post Columnist David Broder, an alumnus of several Goldwin seminars: "He is the most skilled moderator or discussion manager I've ever seen...
...consequence of inflation, the money that the producing countries get for their oil is buying fewer and fewer goods in the industrialized world. The OPEC countries' purchasing power has also diminished because of the recent decline in the value of the dollar, which is the principal currency for payment of oil. When the dollar's value depreciates, the oil states have to spend more for their imports from Europe and Japan. Cartel members will meet in Vienna this week, and the problems of inflation, the weakening dollar and the oil glut are certain to be high on their...