Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach those kids who dodged the draft or deserted. I'm not for unlimited amnesty. Deserters can't go home scot free when the kid next door might have been killed in Viet Nam. Can't we fashion some way to let them earn their way back?" The effects of this pronouncement, formalized in Ford's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, stunned the vets and the nation. But why? Because the absence of simple decency in his predecessor had become an accepted condition of our national life. There is no other logical...
From 1892 to 1967, the P & W was leased and operated by the New Haven Railroad, but after the Penn Central acquired the New Haven in 1966, it instructed its new subsidiary to cancel the lease because the P & W did not earn enough money. P & W President Robert H. Eder, an ex-paratrooper and Harvard Law graduate, fought the move, but the ICC decided in favor of Penn Central, and the Supreme Court upheld the decision. The P & W got bank backing and filed a petition with the ICC to operate independently, but the Penn Central about-faced...
...cowgirl competition. The cowgirls have been around for years, but now, instead of performing merely as a side show to the men's rodeo, several hundred female ropers and riders have organized their own circuit. With only 30 rodeos and prize money so limited that the leading competitors earn less than $1,000 a year, the cowgirl tour is struggling to gain parity. "We're out there riding the same broncs and bulls the men are," says top Bareback Rider Benjie Prudom. "There's no reason we shouldn't get paid the same." Indeed, Prudom...
...many of them have had no real assurance that they will ever see a cent of the money. Now workers can breathe somewhat easier: Congress is set to enact this week a long-overdue pension reform bill designed to make sure that employees collect the benefits they earn...
...Even during the turmoil on the college campuses, some of them came here because they wanted an education," says Navy Captain Ronald A. Campbell, who is in charge of recruiting and counseling potential midshipmen. As an added attraction, Annapolis offers a majors program in which midshipmen can earn bachelor's degrees in nonnaval fields as well as traditional areas such as electrical and mechanical engineering, naval architecture and ocean engineering. West Point, which sends more than 70% of its graduates on to complete graduate school, does not offer a majors program, but it has liberalized its electives. Cadets...