Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCord also contended that after the men were arrested inside the Watergate on June 17, they received regular payoffs to keep quiet. These amounted to at least $1,000 per man each month and were, he said, delivered in cash by Mrs. E. Howard Hunt, wife of one of the arrested men. Hunt, a former White House consultant, later pleaded guilty to burglary and wiretapping. His wife was killed in a Chicago airplane crash on Dec. 8; she was carrying $10,000 in cash at the time. McCord also contended that the payoff money was coming from the Nixon reelection...
Exactly how the application trend will translate into class size in September is not yet clear. "The payoff is how many register," noted A.A.C. President Frederic W. Ness. Moreover, high school seniors today may simply be more confident about getting into their first-choice colleges. In that case, there would be fewer applications to second-choice schools than there were in the fiercely competitive 1960s. Still, the U.S. Office of Education predicts that next fall's enrollments at four-year campuses will be roughly the same as this year's 9.2 million. Turned off by high college costs...
According to Bell Labs President William O. Baker, one of Nixon's unofficial science consultants, the President wants "to couple research to the actual delivery of knowledge." When no immediate payoff can be promised, there have been cutbacks even in areas that are politically acceptable. Explaining the big reduction in the $27 million budget of the Department of the Interior's Office of Saline Water, for instance, one skeptical scientist says: "About all they've discovered is that distilled water will be free of salt...
Even though there is a payoff in benefits, however, Social Security payroll deductions-officially called "contributions," despite the fact that they are compulsory for both full-time and part-time employees-are a regressive tax that hits low-income groups hardest...
...payoff, Filion's operation is relatively small-time. The vast majority of the 125 standardbreds he partially or wholly owns are inexpensive horses that he has picked up in claiming races.* In fact, Filion's admirers say, the "Little Iron Man"-as the cocky, compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) French Canadian is known-will race any combination of two wheels and four legs. One of Filion's alltime favorites was a horse called Rabbit, an equine outpatient that, as one railbird recalls, had "four lame legs and so many bone chips he sounded like...