Word: vouchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...payment voucher showed that a contractor applied two coats of paint to 63,400 sq. ft. of stairwells in the GSA's Washington headquarters, even though the area involved measured only 35,000 sq. ft. at best and was never actually painted. Six weeks later the contractor billed the GSA for applying 257,000 sq. ft. of plaster to the same stairwells. Reports TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski: "The staircase still looks grimy...
Going a step further, Harvard's Martin Feldstein suggests that the Government give what he euphemistically calls "youth employment scholarships to the unemployed and unskilled." Recipients would get 1,500 vouchers, which an employer could turn in to the Government in exchange for $1 each. The firm hiring and training the young person would collect one voucher per hour, thus substantially offsetting the burden of the rising minimum wage, which climbed from $2.30 to $2.65 an hour this year, and will increase to $3.35 in 1981. In the future, the vouchers might have to be worth well over $1. Says...
...note were copies of Nixon's "Vietnamization" speeches. Another letter from the Adjutant General's office informed the Mullens that the "nonbattle" casualty had been posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Good Conduct Medal. Then Form 1174 arrived from Army Finance. It was a voucher that the Mullens were asked to sign in order to receive the pay due Michael at the time of his death. They refused to sign without a full accounting. When it came, there was a deduction for advance-leave time that their son was no longer in a position to make...
...million by Esso Italiana, mainly to Italian political parties. Monroe said that Exxon called a halt to the payments in 1971 when it discovered that the subsidiary's president, Vincenzo Cazzaniga, since dismissed, had spent an additional $19 million that had not been authorized. Included was a voucher for $86,000 supposedly paid to the Italian Communist Party, which made sweeping gains in regional elections last month partly by boasting that its hands were "clean" of foreign oil money. The Italian Communists, who wield considerable clout in their country's municipal and union affairs, have denied they ever...
Beyond these difficulties with the voucher proposal, there is hardly any certainty that a private system of educational facilities can compete with the public system of educational facilities already established. For example, the religious school systems are barely managing to survive the current economic crisis, and the day when they appeal for public funding is already past...