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This was true for most black jazz musicians in the 1930's and 1940's, for Holiday would often get paid only $50 to $75 for a side (two recorded songs on a 78rpm) and did not receive royalites on her recordings until after 1944. Underpaid and at the mercy of white managers and promoters, Holiday constantly had to fight to get the money and respect she wanted so badly and rightfully deserved...
...result, the agency has a bad case of bureaucratic burnout. Approval of new drugs requires mountains of corporate filings, and delays in processing applications now run well over two years. That has led to more scandal: this summer investigators discovered that a few generic-drug developers had bribed underpaid FDA employees to speed up the agency's responses to the paperwork for their products. Three FDA reviewers have already pleaded guilty, and more prosecutions are expected. "This past year has been one of the most difficult in FDA's history," said Commissioner Frank Young last week...
...pledged $400,000 as a one-time paymentto augment teachers' salaries by 5 percent.Chelsea teachers have not had a pay raise in twoyears, and Paul Clemente, B.U.'s associate vicepresident for financial affairs, said that thepayment was "a recognition that the teachers aregrossly underpaid...[made] to get the school offon the right foot...
What makes student athletes especially vulnerable to temptation is that many consider themselves underpaid professionals who deserve whatever comes their way. "Once you get out on the floor, it's a job, and you expect to get paid," says former UNLV player Eldridge Hudson. "If a kid is busting his ass on the court, if somebody wants to buy him a car, let him have it." Hudson always hoped to share his good fortune with his family. "Me being a star, I thought my mother deserved a Mercedes." While in school, Hudson said, he had a private apartment and drove...
...logic of capitalism assumes knowledgeable, reasonably intelligent people on both sides of the transaction. Is this where the kidney trade falls short? At $4,400, the poor Turk was probably underpaid for his kidney. But in an open, legal market with protections against exploitation, he might have got more. At some price, the deal would make sense for almost anyone. I have no sentimental attachment to my kidneys. Out of prudence, I'd like to hang on to one of them, but the other is available. My price is $2 million...