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...sure, it would cost you. Figure it this way. The first slaves arrived here in 1619, and emancipation came in 1863. That's 244 years of unpaid labor by a total of, say, 10 million slaves. Multiplied by 25 [cents] a day, the going rate for unskilled labor back then, it amounts to $222 billion. Throw in another $222 billion for pain and suffering, and you get $444 billion. At 3% interest compounded over the 134 years since emancipation, that adds up to $24 trillion. Serious money...
...into every stranger's business. At any sign of citizen anger, party officials respond quickly to keep the city quiet, fixing water mains or repairing broken heaters. The city's new technocratic mayor has permitted small, regular, controlled demonstrations at city hall to let citizens vent their spleen about unpaid pensions and missing salary checks. But there have also been at least two large, unauthorized protests in Shenyang. Internal memos have circulated among party leaders warning of strikes, police confrontation, widespread outbreaks of crime. But no significant pockets of dissent have formed among the people. "They are not content...
...Barbour nevertheless lined up Hong Kong collateral for a $2.2 million loan to the Forum. The money helped free up funds for the successful Republican assault on Congress in 1994, and it aided the party again two years later when the Hong Kong guarantor absorbed $500,000 of the unpaid balance. Senate investigators are now trying to determine whether the Forum was used to launder foreign campaign funds. The controversy was foreshadowed in the memo by Baroody, who explained he was resigning partly over Barbour's "fascination" with foreign sources of funding. Baroody wrote that while the think tank...
DENVER: Although Denver businesswoman Carole Ward must have experienced immense satisfaction, she had to know she'd pay a price for telling off IRS agent Paula Dzierzanowski during a 1993 dispute over $324,000 in unpaid income taxes. "Honey, from what I can see of your accounting skills, the country would be better served if you were dishing up chicken-fried steak on some interstate in west Texas, with all the clunky jewelry and big hair," Ward said in the heat of negotiations. Retaliation from the feds was swift and sure: Within weeks, IRS agents posted notices that led locals...
Next Wu had his turn at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testifying that everything from paper clips to Christmas lights is being manufactured by unpaid convicts and then sold cheaply--and illegally--in America. MFN opponents accuse the Clinton Administration of turning a blind eye toward Beijing. Even George Weise, who heads U.S. Customs, the agency charged with preventing the import of prison-made goods, admits lamely that "we simply do not have the tools" to carry out that mission. Weise admits the agency is similarly tool-less in spotting mislabeled apparel imports, which amount to at least $2 billion...