Word: pays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mello decided to fight back. "We refused to pay the rent increase, we encouraged other tenants not to pay, and we took him to court for violations of the housing code. We hung together," she says...
Marcotte, 50, is no stranger to housing injustice. He describes his job--one of EZF's three paid positions--as full-time with part-time pay. He also works part-time as a housekeeper to pay the rent, which has been getting increasingly hard...
...said the commission has the authority to award back pay, attorney's fees and damages for pain and suffering to an employee. The commission can also force an employer to reinstate a terminated employee, she said...
Certain industries have yielded gushers of eccentrics. Oil gave the world two famous penny-pinching billionaires: J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), legendary for forcing guests at his estate to use a pay phone, and H.L. Hunt (1889-74), who every day either brought his lunch to work in a paper sack or, when not feeling quite so flush, cadged his secretary's sandwich. Less well known was oil and cattle baron James ("Silver Dollar Jim") West (1903-57). Wearing a diamond-encrusted Texas Ranger's badge and hunched behind the wheel of one of his 30 automobiles, West loved...
...millions, he has tried--and failed--to win a variety of elective offices, ranging from lieutenant governor of New York to U.S. Senator as a member of, variously, the Republican, Democratic and Independent parties. Recently, he interposed himself into the Clinton sex scandal, when, uninvited, he offered to pay Paula Jones $1 million if she would drop her sexual-harassment suit against the President. A few years ago, a headline in the New York Post asked WHO IS THIS NUT? At the time, Hirschfeld owned the newspaper. Asked if he was crazy, he replied, with great good grace...