Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mines. The gesture may also have expressed their feelings about the contract. "If Carter says this contract's a fair shake," said one miner, "they can take that peanut farmer back to Georgia and bury him." Terry Stay, 23, a former social worker who became a miner to earn more money, agreed: "We aren't a bunch of shanty tramps like television shows you every night. We deserve better...
...Upper West Side, went from soldier to singer to antique dealer before becoming a full-time artist. Philadelphia's Ray King, 27, until recently had to make ends meet by restoring old stained-glass windows; now he is one of the few artists in the medium who can earn a living making his own experimental pieces. Benida Solow, 30, whose lustrous Innerscape, a freestanding screen, was included in the Los Angeles show, has been represented at five other California exhibitions in the past two years...
...grueling and sweaty work for many seniors who are writing theses. And thesis watching has fast become one of America's great spectator sports. There is nothing like the thrill of watching a well-trained athlete laying into the typewriter and coming up with incredible insights that could earn him honors (the thrill of victory) or, with some bad luck, no distinction (the agony of defeat...
Carter's-plan does have a growing body of support. Ready to defend it are the Chamber of Commerce, Common Cause and Ralph Nader's consumer constituency. The plan will surely be popular with the public, which has grown resentful of a bureaucracy that produces less while earning more money for itself. Inertia was perhaps tolerable when federal pay was not competitive with the private sector, but that is no longer the case. Secretaries, stenographers, keypunch operators and other clerical employees for the Government often earn more than similar workers in private industry. Average hourly wages...
Navy's Nick Mygas, who defeated Beling to earn the other spot in the Eastern finals--where he was pinned by Sefter--earned a trip to the NCAA finals for his second-place showing...