Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...postal workers, who now earn an average of $7.58 per hour, were deeply dissatisfied. There were brief wildcat walkouts in Jersey City and outside
...discouraged, though. As a freshman, Larry Brown failed to earn the starting QB job on the frosh team. As a soph, he played fourth-string on the varsity. As a junior, Brownie got a break when the starting quarterback suffered a neck injury in the season opener, and went on to lead the Ivy League in passing and total offense. As a senior, Brown finds himself listed alongside the likes of Penn State's Chuck Fusina and B.C.'s Fred Smerlas in this month's Playboy as one of the top players in the East...
...this rate, Nick Deak will be giving Karl Maiden some competition. Still other investors-widows, orphans and the simply frightened-seek Deak for investment advice or put their money into gold, silver or Swiss franc deposits in his banks in Switzerland and Austria. In a dull year he may earn about $1 million for himself. And this has been anything but a dull year...
...promise of 10% of the net?which he is yet to see. There is another $1 million, minus legal expenses, for Earthquake, and $350,000 plus 5% of the gross on Superman I and II, the forthcoming spectaculars about The Man of Steel. On top of this, Puzo will earn $250,000 in increments and a gross percentage for his treatment for Godfather III. The paperback millionaire estimates that in the past ten years he has made at least $6 million from his books and movies. Before Godfather, his combined income from two previous novels amounted...
...crackdown, the villagers were more confused than threatened by theological conflict. Some chose to "fish from both banks," as one witness put it. Pierre Maury, a goodhearted shepherd who followed the seasons across the Pyrenees into Catalonia and back again, explained, "I want to use what I earn from my work to do good to both sides. Because really I do not know which of the two beliefs is the more valid. Although, in fact, I support rather the faith of the heretics. But that is simply because my communications and relations with the heretics are greater than with...