Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only two Harvard athletes ever to earn letters for figure skating...
Center looks weak so far, with Joe Pellegrini taking a year off, but when you guys who play like Danny Jiggetts fighting to earn a spot on the offensive line, you know things are looking...
...factory jobs in the cities. For most, the effort has been futile. Lacking skills and education, they have settled for poverty-level employment at best-and in all too many instances, no job at all. By working ten hours a day, six days a week, an ambitious woman might earn about $75 per month, scarcely enough to survive in a wooden and tin-can hovel, let alone support her children. At the same time, the peasants contribute endlessly to a stunningly high birth rate (37.1 per thousand). Thousands of parents are forced to cast their offspring out like rubbish...
...right. Its profits rose 7.5% last year, to just over $1 billion, and another 16% in the first half of 1978. Traditionally strong in marketing, it has been leading the swing to self-service gas stations in both the U.S. and Europe; indeed, it was the only Sister to earn a profit last year in the fiercely competitive West German market...
...worry that I'm more influenced by the things I'd like to do." Faculty members urge parents to take a hands-off attitude. "You must be supportive but not too directive," Arts and Sciences Dean Kenneth Clark told one assembly. "It's the student who's got to earn the grade and live with success or failure...