Word: payments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just like the downsized IRS, taxpayers were coming in with downsized problems. One woman was there over a disputed $100 payment. She said the agency only credited her for $75, throwing her account into default. An hour later, she returned happy, although saddled with more paperwork, and confident that her problem would be taken care of. "I'm very happy with how I was treated, and I think that everything is going to be fine." Oh, the humanity...
...first question facing Scribner and its parent Simon & Schuster--the big fish that had swallowed an earlier, smaller-fry publisher of Joy--was how to get Ethan Becker on board for the new project. An advance payment of more than a million dollars provided a satisfactory answer for all the parties involved. Ethan is hence listed on the cover and title page along with Irma and Marion as the author of the Joy of Cooking. But how many verses, people in publishing and in the intensely competitive world of chefs and cookbook writers wondered, often loudly, did Ethan really sing...
Iovine and Field ran Interscope without a net, rejecting marketing reports and giving musicians leeway to direct their own careers--sometimes with combustible results. In May, Trauma sued Interscope over control of No Doubt, a spat settled with a $3 million payment...
...spotlight in the campaign-finance inquiry shifts this week to a $1 million payment that lobbyist and close Al Gore ally PETER KNIGHT received just weeks before he left his firm to manage the Clinton-Gore campaign last year. The source of the payment was Franklin Haney, a Chattanooga developer and longtime Gore supporter, who last year became involved in a controversial Washington building project called the Portals...
...this week before the House Commerce Committee about several of his lobbying efforts for clients who also donated to the Democratic Party; Haney gave more than $200,000 to the party in 1996. Knight's attorney said he could not immediately comment on the large fee. Haney confirmed the payment, saying the check was for general legal work on the project...