Word: repayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pompidou happened to be in the neighborhood, on his way to Ethiopia to repay a visit to France made by Emperor Haile Selassie last year. The territory, known as French Somaliland until 1967, is France's last remaining real estate on the African mainland. It sends one Deputy and one Senator to the French National Assembly. But the colony's voters will hardly play a major role in the French elections in March. In fact, by visiting Djibouti, Pompidou was courting trouble rather than making campaign gains...
...rubles for a teachers-college education to 21,000 rubles for a Ph.D., and the average university graduate earns from 120 to 150 rubles a month, one Jewish scientist in Moscow observed that it would take him 200 years to accumulate the money. The Soviets admit that university graduates repay the expense of their education by their labor within four or five years...
...second girl is Bobbi Michele, a paranoid pothead whom Barney picks up while munching peanuts on a bench in Central Park. He lends her the cash to hire an accompanist for an audition on Broadway. When she shows up at Mom's apartment the next day to repay the money, all of Barney's fantasies of extramarital fulfillment vanish in a haze of marijuana smoke...
...that their two children will not be deprived of both parents at one time. Suskind, who helped with the research on the bogus manuscript, got six months in a state court. The trio has returned none of the money paid to them by McGraw-Hill, and are obligated to repay the $766,000, which includes expenses, that the company says is owed them. In addition, each of the Irvings was fined $10,000. Presumably Irving still intends to pay for his folly by writing a book about how the threesome did their nonbook. Thirty months should be plenty of time...
...often invoked in U.S. law, it may be making a comeback. This summer, a pilot Restitution House in the Minneapolis area plans to take in 25 prisoner volunteers -check forgers, burglars and the like -whose crimes involved only property. They will be employed in the community and repay their victims out of their earnings. The program excludes any prisoners convicted of violent crimes...