Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approximately 70 per cent of last year's Harvard Law School graduates currently employed with private firms, the more than 100 laboring in New York City earn between $18,000 and $26,500, while the remainder of the class, particularly the fifth who work for the government, earn appreciably less, Eleanor Roberts Appel, placement director at the Law School, said...
After four years of medical school, the future physicians from Harvard begin one-year internships paying roughly $10,000 before completing two to four years of residency with only slightly higher wages. Later, of course, they will earn considerably more...
Many major airlines view the trend away from standard fixed fares with varying degrees of horror and resignation. The airlines are at last making money again: having lost by one estimate $94 million as recently as 1975, the major carriers could collectively earn a record $500 million this year, thanks partly to a post-recession upturn in air travel. But bargain plans will almost always have a "modestly negative" impact on earnings, insists Theodore Shen, airline analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. So why are the airlines slashing fares...
...course, has not been lost. The proportion of the nation officially listed as living in poverty has dropped since 1959 from 22% to 12%. One of America's great success sagas has been the rise of many blacks to the secure middle class. Today 44% of black families earn $10,000 or more a year. More than 45% of black high school graduates now go on to college. Though some discrimination persists, more and more nonwhites are seen in at least the junior management ranks of banks and corporations and government, where they are moving...
...anchormen have held office, and popularity, for longer terms than Presidents. The fact is, their best qualities are only on stand-by reserve when they read the evening news. It is on other occasions-in knowledgeable ad-lib coverage of political conventions, space shots, presidential funerals-that they earn their spurs, their reputations, the trust of their viewers. Would Arledge himself be so dismissive of the anchoring role if ABC had Walter Cronkite and was No. 1 in the ratings? Arledge, though he professes to admire Reasoner's whimsical essays and Walters' interviews, is convinced that...