Word: refund
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be the nonevent of the millennium. The only thing less likely than a catastrophe is that the profiteers who make a fortune off the gullible will refund everyone's money after being hit by "survivor's guilt" in January 2000. ANDREA CHESNEY Los Angeles...
With games going unplayed for months, ticket sales and television advertisement revenues waned--meaning the NBA had to refund money to the affected networks...
Prepaid plans offer tax advantages, and some are portable, but many still apply only to public colleges within the taxpayer's state. What if Junior gets accepted to Harvard? You can get your contributions back. But some states refund only principal, beating you out of years' worth of investment gains. And state prepaid plans make it tougher to get student aid because the money is held in the student's name. With savings plans the money is in a parent's name, where it counts less heavily in student-aid formulas--and you can set aside as much...
Reuther kept pressing for new and better benefits, and over time, the union won the things that employees today take for granted. Year by year, workers gained, among others, comprehensive health-care programs, tuition-refund programs, life insurance, profit sharing, severance pay, prepaid legal-service plans, bereavement pay, jury-duty pay--plus improvements in vacations, holidays and rest time. The negotiation of decent working, health and safety conditions, coupled with a sound grievance procedure, added immeasurably to the personal sense of dignity and self-respect of the worker...
...most of it does happen. When Dil's constant screams and crying grow to be too much for the original Rugrats, Phil and Lil, always brutally practical, suggest they take Dil back to "the baby store" for a refund. After all, they reason, why keep a "broked" baby when they can get a new one that works better? Despite his misgivings, Tommy must go along for the ride to care for his younger brother as Chuckie and the twins take Dil back to the hospital in the Reptar Wagon, a crazy contraption built by Stu in his toy workshop...