Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Palmerton rolls up two more touchdowns, taking advantage of its average 25-lb. weight advantage on the line and a new razzle-dazzle shotgun formation. Palmerton's big fullback drags tacklers along like reluctant dance partners. Unable to earn a first down, the Bears are forced to punt again and again. Dr. Verbruggen shakes his head and looks grim. "See No. 24 there," he says. "He's going to hurt his hand. He's cold, and he's rubbing them between every play. That means he can't coordinate them well...
...football is just as opportunistic as his sales pitch. He lacks great size or speed but he has a knack of finding the seam in zone defenses that he attributes to the perspective he gained while playing quarterback. His ability to catch the ball under pressure would undoubtedly earn him the nickname "the wee ice mon" if he played on the Isle of Skye eleven...
...easier to understand, but they do not offer any great advantages over PATS. NOW accounts too are advantageous mainly to those who can maintain big balances, though the break-even point may be somewhat lower than with PATS. Under Citibank's plan, for instance, a depositor will earn 5% interest on the money he keeps in a NOW account and if he maintains a total balance of at least $3,000, pay no service fee. But if the combined balance drops below that, he must pay a charge...
...high school students. The primary work force is the family: Sons Michael, 20, Blane, 18, Kurt, 13, and Daughters Stephanie, 19, and Lisa, 16. Even eleven-year-old David drives a tractor pulling a harvester that yanks three tons of sugar beets out of the ground every minute. All earn $3 an hour. During the wheat harvest each of them worked eight hours a day in staggered shifts so that some member of the family was in the fields 24 hours a day. Says Pat: "The kids learn that you are paid according to how much you work. That...
...standards and its required menu of advanced science courses put undergraduates under fierce pressure. "When I came here, I felt everybody in the class was smarter than I was," recalls Senior Peter DeWees, who graduated second in his Riverside, Calif., high school class. "In the physics course, you could earn a possible 30 points on one test. I got one point." Top scorers though they are, 30% of the entering class do not graduate from Caltech. Observes Dean of Students Ray Owen: "At midyear, half the freshmen are failing math and one-third are failing physics. They are afraid...