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Instead, each side seems to be hunkering down for a long winter's war of attrition. The owners hope that a player strapped for a payment on the cabin cruiser or the chalet in Sun Valley, Idaho, will be more amenable to their point of view come February. The union thinks owners, deprived of the revenue that off-season ticket sales generate, will cave in. Meanwhile, the union has begun to make payments to its members from a $200 million strike fund. Neither side shows an inclination to blink...
...Harvard is giving us a loan which will be paid back by revenue and alumni donations," Barylski says. "We have a solid payment plan...
...shelling out $135 million to the feds. At issue were back taxes on the money that the nation's largest senior citizen organization made from royalties on insurance, mail-order prescription drugs and other products that used the AARP name in their marketing. The AARP stressed that its payment did not imply any admission that it would owe taxes on such income in the future. Nevertheless, the settlement sent a chill through the non-profit world, where the AARP scheme is an oft-used money-maker...
Poaching, defined by federal law as the hunting of protected animals or wildlife for a payment of more than $350, has some glamour in its past. Back in Sherwood Forest, taking the King's deer was a capital offense. Today illegal hunters come from all walks: studies identified many of the waterfowl poachers in Wisconsin as white-collar executives, while Missouri's deer poachers are largely unemployed workers. Some claim to be modern-day Robin Hoods, engaged in libertarian protest against Big Government. This amuses the rangers. The poachers' major motivation, says Grosz, is "ego and greed...
Failure by baseball owners to make a $7.8 million payment to the players' pension fund heightened tension between labor and management as baseball's Aug. 12 strike date neared...