Word: payment
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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What is to be done? Representative Washington has it exactly backward. Forget the crumbs, demand reparations. It is time for a historic compromise: a monetary reparation to blacks for centuries of oppression in return for the total abolition of all programs of racial preference. A one-time cash payment in return for a new era of irrevocable color blindness...
...Iraqi industry, which is heavily dependent on parts and equipment from abroad. At the same time, the embargo on Iraqi exports, especially oil, has cost Saddam $1.5 billion a month since he invaded Kuwait in August, leaving his nation without the foreign exchange it must have to offer as payment for smuggled goods. For now, Iraqi factories can dip into preinvasion stockpiles or obtain parts plundered from Kuwaiti factories. But by next spring or summer, Webster predicted, "only energy-related and some military industries will still be functioning...
...people left out in the cold. Despite per capita medical expenditures that dwarf those of socialized systems, 37 million Americans have no health insurance at all. For the uninsured and the underinsured -- who amount to 28% of the population -- a diagnostic work-up can mean a missed car payment; a child's sore throat, an empty dinner table...
...several other schools and levy a special annual fee on users of electrical appliances (something like $5 per computer, $15 per stereo or microwave, $25 per television, etc.). Random inspections (the same ones that root out illegal poster-hanging methods) and steep fines for evaders would suffice to enforce payment of the fees...
...self-proclaimed King of the Deal managed to stave off disaster again -- but for how long? Last week Donald Trump missed a $47 million semiannual interest payment on $675 million worth of junk bonds used to finance his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Taj bondholders had the right to foreclose completely on the casino, but the developer persuaded them to go into business with him instead...