Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernstein and Woodward, the rewards have been substantial. Before they began reporting on Watergate, the two earned together less than $30,000 a year. Now, from raises and book advances, magazine, paperback and movie rights (Robert Redford wants to play Woodward), each reporter stands to earn more than $500,000 before taxes from the book, a sum that could surpass President Nixon's net worth?after he pays all his back taxes...
...treasurer and an adviser to the Corporation Bennett never gave much thought to social considerations. His rationale was always that his job was to earn maximum growth for the university and to consider any other factors was to vitiate this effort. Putnam and Cabot on the other hand believe that social factors must be taken into account in any investment decision because, they say, in the long run socially irresponsible companies will have to pay for their misdeeds out of profits. This will be a factor in all new investments made by Harvard...
Chip Baird, in the fourth singles position, downed Andy Arnold, 6-2, 6-3, while John Horn, who recently recovered from a bout with the flu, crushed Kirk Hurlben, 6-1, 6-4. Junior Hugh Hyde thwarted Bruin Warren Eick's second set comeback attempt to earn a 6-1, 7-5, victory at sixth singles...
McGrath, who was a silver medalist in the World Professional Championships in 1968, 1969, and 1970, outperformed eight competitors with his program done to Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" to earn seven perfect and two near-perfect scores from the nine judges...
...Tory newspapers, the Daily Express and the tabloid Daily Mail, suggested that close associates of Wilson were speculators themselves. The papers also recounted various incidents in which the associates reportedly linked the new Prime Minister's name last year to a series of transactions that were to earn them a $1,860,000 profit on 95 acres of land that they had bought between 1967 and 1973 for $440,000. Scotland Yard began an investigation into the forgery of one letter written on Wilson's private stationery with what was purportedly his own signature...