Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states, are not allowed to offer checking accounts. Still, seven New York savings banks are now advertising "payment orders" in a new effort to woo customers away from commercial banks. One of the lures: it is possible to vise a payment-order account in such a way as to earn interest on funds that are eventually needed to pay bills...
...customer can easily open both a savings account and a payment account, and deposit all but the minimum in the savings account. He can then go to the bank and switch funds into the payment account to cover the non-checks as he writes them, and earn interest on the money until the day of withdrawal. He could do the same thing at a commercial bank, but there he would get at most 5% interest on regular passbook savings. At a savings bank...
Last year Hughes cleared $7,000 from the business and another $1,300 working during the cold, off-season months as a security guard. His wife earns $9,400 as a secretary to David Robinson III, a black lawyer who is regional counsel to Xerox. She started in secretarial work by enrolling in a three-month program in which IBM paid people to study shorthand, typing and English. Now she is learning to be a legal secretary so that she can earn still more...
That so peaceful a union should suddenly turn militant underscores the ominous strains that inflation is setting up in labor-management relations after a long period of worker docility. The strikers, who include cloth cutters, buttonhole makers, sewing-machine operators, pattern makers and tailors, now earn an average of $3.60 an hour, or roughly $135 a week. They are demanding an increase of $1.10 an hour, or a startling 30%, over three years-50? the first year, and 30? for each of the next two. On top of that, the Amalgamated demands an escalator clause that would raise wages further...
...have the same problem are retail stores, banks, and textile and electronics manufacturers. If all that remedying does occur, it should begin to change the present ratio of pay scales. According to a recent Labor Department study of jobs, women who do work similar to men's earn 600 for every $1 earned by their male equals...