Word: unpaid
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...rife that it might taint Mayor Harold Washington. When five indictments were finally handed up last week, two of the seven men charged were indeed black aldermen belonging to a bloc in the city council that supports Washington. But the charges, involving bribery to win city contracts for collecting unpaid parking tickets and water bills, fell far short of an attack on the mayor. To the contrary, U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas praised Washington for his cooperation. Said Valukas: "The mayor is not a target." Said Washington in turn: "I didn't elect the people on the city council...
...latter were the progeny of a proud champion, Dash for Cash. The . stallion's name was apt, for the auction came at a time when Connally himself is making a run for money. Numerous creditors are pursuing the former Texas Governor and U.S. Treasury Secretary for millions in unpaid loans on a host of flailing ventures. Connally, a man as outsize as Texas itself, is in the same predicament as the state where he has always stood tall: he needs the cash or his overextended business will be dashed...
...July 1985, Garcia vowed that he would allot no more than 10% of export earnings for repayment of the country's $14.2 billion foreign debt. The strategy led a year later to a cutoff of loans from the International Monetary Fund and the accumulation of $630 million in unpaid interest owed to U.S. banks. But it has also allowed Garcia to reduce inflation from 184% just before he took office to 59% currently and to increase wages by an average of about 7% over increases in living costs. Fueled by new consumer purchasing power, the economy is growing...
Dukakis nominated the dean for the unpaid five-year position last month...
...work this week, when, on the first Monday of October, the Justices formally open the term. Oral arguments are scheduled Wednesday in one of the most difficult cases they face. Feminists are split over a 1978 California law allowing a pregnant worker to take up to four months of unpaid leave. The Justice Department has joined a Los Angeles bank in claiming that the statute runs afoul of federal laws barring discrimination based on pregnancy. Kathy Bonk of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which also opposes the state rule, argues, "When pregnant women are put in special categories...