Word: waged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...received the original $12 million and repaid it to the Pentagon. But anywhere from $10 million to $30 million went into numbered accounts that Meese said were "under the control of representatives" of the contras. Presumably, the money was used to purchase weapons that the rebels need to wage their guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. North was, according to Meese, the "only person in the United States Government" who knew precisely of the money transfer. Poindexter knew vaguely about the transactions, and McFarlane learned something about them while pursuing diplomatic contacts with Iran as a special...
...good faith with the patrolmen. Earlier this fall Harvard negotiators refused to negotiate a compromise over a union proposal to adopt a new work schedule similar to those at several other local and university police departments and then tried to pressure the union by threatening to withdraw retroactive wage increases to be granted after a new contract is approved. And last year the University forced a union grievance into binding arbitration--which found on behalf of the patrolmen--instead of negotiating with its workers...
...past, the highest paid wage-earners with the Veritas seal have not been administrators and professors, but money managers who run Harvard's $3.5 billion endowment. Walter M. Cabot '55, president of the Harvard Management Company, the University's in-house investment management team, raked in $246,750 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1984. The 1984-85 salary figures for the company are not yet available...
...public reappearance proved that accounts of his passing had been greatly exaggerated. Thus the hottest diplomatic game of the week became trying to figure out who had been doing what to whom. As antagonists of 36 years' standing who regularly wage often arcane propaganda wars against each other, both North and South Korea had plenty of motives to engage in political fabrications. Both countries, moreover, have lately shown signs of instability that could somehow have played a role in the strange episode...
...group to be married to employed black men earning above poverty incomes." Some partly blame a welfare system based on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which often makes it financially disadvantageous for a man to stay at home. In California, for example, a person in a minimum-wage job would gross about $580 a month. Factoring in Social Security deductions, food stamps and other benefits that would go to a typical worker with a spouse and child, the family would get a monthly income of about $737, that is, $246 per family member. If there were no wage earner...