Word: per
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government's new pricing policy got off to a chaotic start. While the plan calls for prices to be rolled back to July 3 levels, prices in many stores kept on rising. The announced end of government subsidies for gasoline pushed prices up 670%, to the equivalent of $1.60 per gal. In anticipation of a 350% rise in subway and train fares, commuters flocked to stations to stock up on tokens...
...however, the soy-bean trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade erupted in pandemonium as the C.B.O.T. issued an emergency order, its first in a decade, that July futures contracts in excess of 1 million bu. be liquidated. In one day soybean-futures prices plunged 5%, to $6.86 per bu. Traders speculated that a single buyer was trying to corner the market or drive up prices. The suspected culprit: Ferruzzi Finanziaria, Italy's second largest privately held company and the third largest U.S. soybean processor since it bought Indiana-based Central Soya...
...provision under which employers would have to pay $16.80 per employee into a fund to provide health insurance for the unemployed was delayed from January 1990 to January...
...What we are considering is legislation to deny benefits to people looking for protection and incur more costs to the commonwealth," said state Rep. John McDonough (D-Boston). McDonough said the changes sought by Forman and Woodward would cost taxpayers $12 million per year...
...issue is whether the $1680 employers put into the state pool would cover the state's costs per person in providing health care insurance. Estimates vary widely. There are an estimated 600,000 citizens in Massachusetts with no health insurance...