Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rockefeller's dividends amount to $80,000 a week. As a typist doing 75 words a minute or 50 letters a day at 500 a letter, it would take me 13 years to earn $80,000. Maybe if I could increase my typing speed...
...gambled that its New York audience was ready for social satire. It let loose Jackie Onassis' younger sister as a probing interviewer. Recently Lee taped for CBS-owned stations Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith, Gloria Steinem, Halston, Robert Coles, Peter Benchley and Rudolf Nureyev. If successful, they could earn Lee her own talk show. For 2½ minutes on the evening news last week Lee, dressed with unrelenting chic and speaking in a throaty mid-Atlantic drawl, questioned Rudi about his life and work. The concept, explained a CBS spokesman, was to cover a single thought each time...
Last summer Miller announced that if the incidence of rape, robbery, burglary and auto theft dropped 3%, everyone on the force would get a 1% salary boost. A 6% reduction would translate into a 2% pay increase; after that, each 2% drop would earn a 1% bonus. The maximum increase the cops can get is 5%. "Currently, we're down 17% for those four crimes," says Police Chief Merrill Duncan. "The men are working harder and our crime-prevention program has greatly expanded." Felony arrests are up 40%, and police diligence has even extended to traffic, reducing accidents...
...resisters themselves, but Ford stuck to his guns. "I have made a decision," he declared in his press conference, "which I think is right and proper: no [unconditional] amnesty, no revenge, and ... individuals who have violated the draft laws or have evaded Selective Service or deserted can earn their way or work their way back...
...road"-their phrase for traveling to the next competition. Because prize money is spread among the 600 rodeos that make up the organized circuit sanctioned by the Cowboys Association, they have to hit a hundred or more every season to hope to make a living. (Even then, few earn as much as $ 10,000 a year...