retroactive
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Retroactive pay due to D.C. teachers as part of a new teachers union contract has been delayed a month, city officials say.
From Washington Times • May 9, 2023
Retroactive approval was not granted; instead, developers paid a fine of $2.1 million, some of which was earmarked to renovate dance-rehearsal space at neighboring City Center.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016
Retroactive wage increases are "something that should be on the table," de Blasio told Reuters in an interview last week.
From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2013
Nor is she any great feminist, despite her outspokenness about "girl power," which you can read about in "Nicki Minaj's Retroactive Feminism" by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd for the website AlterNet.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2012
Mr. Trollop, you are pledged to support the Indigent Congressmen's Retroactive Appropriation which is to come up, either in this or the next session.
From The Gilded Age, Part 5. by Warner, Charles Dudley
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