Word: paying
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Balts bolster their courage by assuming that they would strike out into full freedom as an economic federation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Such a course, however, could multiply their difficulties in acquiring capital and triple the price they would have to pay for cutting their ties with the country that absorbed them 50 years...
...Stuart left his room and walked to a nearby all-night mini-convenience store attached to a Mobil station. The clerks, who pay attention to late-night customers out of fear they might be robbed, remember that he was dressed in a black pullover sweater with white trim and black slacks and purchased soda and a snack. "He was grinning from ear to ear," says Stephen Newcomb. "He was very up, very bubbly and very friendly, but very weird." As Stuart left the store, he turned, still smiling, and asked if the store was open all night. The attendants answered...
...Driftwood was a rung on Charles' career ladder, it was just a summer job for Carol, who had been an outstanding student at Medford high school and a member of the National Honor Society. An honors graduate of Boston College, she was working at the Driftwood to help pay her way through Boston's Suffolk Law School...
Authorities in New Jersey have filed a lawsuit against Exxon, and New York officials threatened to do so but held off when the oil company agreed to assume some liability for the spill. Both states want the oil giant to pay compensation for damage to the environment and reimbursement for the governments' cost of helping in the cleanup. Exxon's environmental bills are mounting. The company has spent more than $1 billion in its efforts to clean up the Valdez spill, and is being sued for billions of dollars more by the state of Alaska, the fishing industry and other...
Movie moguls crave good scripts, but they hate to pay for them. So goes the age-old gripe among disgruntled Hollywood screenwriters, but it took an outsider like columnist Art Buchwald to put the allegation to the test. In a star-studded courtroom drama, Buchwald cast a bright light on the machinations of Hollywood's power brokers. Last week a Los Angeles judge ruled that Paramount Pictures used Buchwald's script proposal as the basis for its 1988 blockbuster Coming to America and failed to pay him accordingly. Paramount plans to appeal...