Word: pays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Currently, the National Football League is the only major professional sport organization that doesn’t pay its officials a salary. Officials are part-time employees with regular nine-to-five jobs during the week. However, with professional football being as popular as it is, it is time for the officials to become full-time employees...
...height of the stakes of each game. Consider this: the average NFL team is worth $957 million, the Dallas Cowboys being the highest at $1.5 billion. That is an enormous investment by the teams’ owners and other investors. In addition, the three major networks each pay an average of two billion dollars a year to broadcast NFL games. With millions of dollars on the line for each game, teams, television networks, and NFL executives give their best effort to produce the best football possible. The officiating should be no exception. If referees were full-time, they...
Take a ride on the Green Line to a night of art, music, and mingling at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On the third Thursday of every month, for just $5, feel cultured as you explore the collections while (if you’re willing to pay a little extra) sipping a cocktail...
...Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, and the formerly virtuous John McCain, a sore loser who has reversed his position on practically everything lately. The Senate Republicans then proceeded to vote unanimously against a provision, attached to a necessary increase in the debt limit, that would force Congress to pay for every new initiative it enacts. This "paygo" provision was the law of the land when Bill Clinton was building budget surpluses (in fairness, he inherited it from the equally responsible George H.W. Bush) - and was abandoned when George W. Bush started building the alpine deficits that plague us today...
...about 60% of gross domestic product - the highest level of public debt since 1952. "There's a fundamental disconnect between the level of benefits that people want the government to provide, particularly for older Americans, and the amount of resources that people want to send to Washington to pay for those benefits," Elmendorf says. "To make the fiscal policies sustainable will require some resolution of that fundamental disconnect." (See a brief history of the U.S. deficit...