Word: underpaid
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...former Treasury Department tax attorney who has taught tax law at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale and co- written a book on federal taxation that one of Clinton's tax advisers calls "an industry bible." His opinion: "If the worst assumptions are true, the Clintons underpaid their federal taxes by at least $11,000" during the years 1978-79-80 alone. That would be in addition to $2,156 the Clintons earlier admitted underpaying in 1984 and 1985; adding interest, the Clintons have repaid...
...smaller still, since any underpayment may well have been inadvertent, resulting largely from what even Lindsey concedes was at times casual bookkeeping. The political embarrassment to the White House will be great if a President who has asked many Americans to pay higher taxes can be shown to have underpaid his own. But the penalty in loss of public trust if that revelation is forced out of an unwilling and obfuscating White House could be the greatest...
...industry struggling to pull out of a three-year nose dive (total losses: $10 billion). Just as some big carriers -- American, Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines among them -- have begun to post modest earnings, the long-quiescent airline unions have started voicing their demands. Workers who feel underpaid and overworked are asking for their share of the emerging profits. Management's response: continued cost cutting. "No question about it," says Morgan Stanley airline analyst Kevin Murphy, "1994 will be the year of labor turmoil in the U.S. airline industry...
...offering the patrollers a 2.6 percent raise for 1993 and 1994. Budgets are tight all across the University--except, it seems, when it comes to the police administration's payroll. When you get right down to it, this is an issue of fairness. Harvard's patrollers are underpaid-down the river, at MIT. they make roughly 4 percent more...
...first part of the unhappiness is systemic, for a writing teacher's lot is not always a happy one. Colleges talk a big line about the importance of writing, but they seldom back their commitments with money. Chronically underpaid and overworked, the teachers who take up this cross find themselves scuttling from college to college, sometimes working at two or more jobs at once. For men and women who have put years into getting an advanced degree, the life of an itinerant scholar often comes as a bitter pill. Many of them are trying to make a name for themselves...