Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architects of Nixon's Southern strategy on school integration while general counsel for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Rigidly conservative, Mardian later showed much anti-radical fervor but little savvy as chief of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division. Disappointed when he did not earn a higher position in the Nixon Administration, he said with foresight about the Nixon camp: "When things are going great they ignore me, but when things get screwed up, they lean on me." He was indicted for conspiracy...
King of the mountain was Horace ("Hod") Tabor, a shambling boor and former storekeeper who had grubstaked two starving prospectors to $64.75 worth of provisions. Only ten months later, Hod wound up with the Matchless and other prodigious silver mines that were to earn him as much as $4 million a year - in taxless 1880 dollars. After his first meeting with Baby, who had judiciously selected him as her private grubstake, Hardrock Horace bought off her current protector and made Baby Doe his mistress. No matter that he was 53 and she 23, or that he was married...
Lately he has been making some nice change. In the past five years, the prolific Mailer has juggled publishing contracts to earn around $250,000 a year. Another $500,000 is expected to come in from his recent book Marilyn. Still, it only just supports a $200,000-a-year life-style that is shaped by five marriages and seven children. Last week Wheeler-Dealer Mailer brought off the coup of his career: a record $1 million from Little Brown for a proposed saga about "a family from ancient history to future history" which will end aboard a spaceship. Swearing...
...walls of indifference"; 84% of the current annual school budget of $154 million goes to salaries and other personnel expenses. While salaries for the system's 4,433 teachers average $14,320 (with a top of $17,115), the 98 administrators in the superintendent's office earn from $21,650 to $37,520. The grand jury report also criticized the central office for its poor performance in managing the system's budget. For example, a letter went out last month to school principals reminding them that all money not spent by Feb. 5 would have...
...night before the home game against Notre Dame with the rest of the team in a motel. "I've changed," says Wooden. "The times have changed. You can't be rigid and unyielding." Says Walton: "I don't have blind reverence for authority. People I respect earn my respect. Coach Wooden has earned...