Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to my letter in Thursday's Crimson (Oct. 24), Peter Ferrara claims that the figure of $10.90 I cite as the median daily earnings of a full-time farmworker includes only base pay and not piece work. This is simply not true. The figure comes from the Department of Agriculture's booklet, "The Hired Farm Working Force of 1970," which Mr. Ferrara will find in the Business School library. It includes base pay, piece work, and all other forms of cash payment, and is an average only over the days the worker can find employment. The same publication also...
...when he had three children in college and was spending $20,000 annually on their education-is not doing badly itself. Freede has raised the finder's fee to $39, but he expects the number of applicants to more than double and predicts that the firm will earn $1 million this year...
...however, and others raised questions of propriety. Hugh Morrow, Rockefeller's chief press spokesman for 15 years, said that most of the gifts went to longtime employees. "Many of these friends have been in public service where the pay is not always commensurate with what these people could earn elsewhere," said Morrow. A Senate aide described the practice more picturesquely: "It's like the old lords of the manor giving Christmas purses to the retainers." The circumstances surrounding Rocky's gifts varied widely...
...stretch, then roaring past the field in a powerful thrust. Last week American-bred Allez France beat the best thoroughbreds Europe had to offer in the 1%-mile Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, winning $296,500 and becoming the only other filly besides Dahlia ever to earn $1 million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy takes considerably more than oats. Allez France demands the camaraderie of Merry Lord, a horse who leads the morning workouts, dotes on the champion and lets her bite him and bump him around. Trainer Angel Penna has thoughtfully equipped her stall...
...textile executive at 52 to help run the Marshall Plan in postwar West Germany. As Governor from 1954 to 1960, he was successful not only in guiding North Carolina through a pe riod of racial tension but also in attracting an impressive influx of industry-an achievement that helped earn him the Commerce post in John Kennedy's Cabinet. With characteristic vigor, he promoted exports to Communist countries, arguing: "Sell them anything they can eat, drink or smoke...