Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon order the payment of hush money to E. Howard Hunt? One of the reasons that Dean laid out the cover-up for Nixon on March 21 was that at least one of the jailed Watergate seven was escalating his money demand for keeping silent. The immediate problem was a fresh request for $120,000 by Hunt, the CIA alumnus and White House consultant who had pleaded guilty to break-in and bugging charges. Dean did not know how to meet the urgent request. Hunt was threatening to tell about some of his preWatergate clandestine activities for the White House...
...just thinking out loud, as I put it at one point, I several times suggested that meeting Hunt's demands might be necessary ... [but] my conclusion at the end of the meeting was clear. And my actions and reactions ... show clearly that I did not intend the further payment to Hunt or anyone else be made...
...this process the temporarily high profits a company makes during the shortage are its payment for switching resources to their most important uses and for providing a commodity when it is most needed--during the shortage...
...would anyone be allowed to make profits at the expense of others? Someone who produces a product creates a value. He has combined various inputs and created a more valuable output. The extra value is his because he created it and his profit is payment for this value. His profit does not mean he is appropriating a bigger share of available wealth, it means he is increasing total wealth and his profit is the amount he increased it by. He doesn't make this profit at the expense of others, he creates the value of the profit by producing...
...fall, forcing more rate increases that cut usage further. But it has many problems of its own. The state public service commission requires that its rates be based on last year's costs. A 60-day lag exists between Con Ed's paying for fuel and receiving payment for it from customers; currently the utility has spent $107 million to generate electricity for which no bills have yet been sent out. Some Con Ed customers are so angered by rate hikes that they are paying bills slowly...