Word: payment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mate," a pilot chuckled. All the pilots have one thing in common-they fly to get a stake. "I'm only in it for the money," one sad, balding man told me. "I've got a wife and five kids and I want to put a down payment on a house in Salisbury." Another Rhodesian had a second motive: "That Harold Wilson is a bastard. He's against Biafra and he's buggering us too. This is a chance to bugger him." Everyone roared with laughter...
...interesting, too, that Massachusetts' wealthiest Corporation, easily able to afford payment on its own renovations, has accepted this money rather than requesting it be put to a more vital...
...stations), will bring B.P.'s worldwide total to 36,000 stations. To pay for them, B.P. has worked out a scheme that is fancier than Sinclair's Dino Dollars game. Because of the weakness of the pound, Her Majesty's government would never approve payment of $300 million in sterling. So B.P. plans to pay in dollars over a six-year period beginning in 1972. That is just about when the company's recent Alaskan strikes will presumably begin pouring out oil-and pulling in dollars-in quantity...
...case of some doctors, dentists or druggists the City owes as much as $1,000. These people have often been required to take out a bank loan to make up for the revenue they have lost in the payment delay. Councillor Thomas J. Danehy pointed out that in such cases the claimants might be able to sue the City for the interest on such a bank loan...
Since last spring, the federal government and other large research foundations have been busily chopping away at their research contracts with universities. Those cuts do not affect the faculty budget directly. No grants go into the budget; instead, the faculty receives a percentage of each research grant as payment for overhead costs--such as maintaining the labs and offices for the researchers. So when the research contracts are cut, overhead payments drop correspondingly. The overhead costs, however, keep right on going, and the Faculty begins to lose money on its labs instead of breaking even...