Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looting in New York City is a tragic indication of what the welfare program is doing to this country. People who work and earn a living know the worth of private property; they would not shamelessly destroy the livelihood of others...
...every dream horse like Seattle Slew (auction price: $17,500; payoff on the Triple Crown races alone: $462,380), there are thousands of also-rans and tens of thousands of never-rans. As a rule, only 5% of the more than 30,000 thoroughbreds foaled each year will ever earn their keep on a race track. Fully 65%, in fact, are high-priced, slow-footed dreams deferred that will retire without a single trip to the post. But if the pie is quite high in the sky, the tax shelters are very down to earth, so the wealthy gather every...
This latest in a long line of movies about mental institutions is chiefly distinguished by what it does not do. It does not revel in too many lurid scenes of zany inmates being violent or bestial (though it has its share, enough to earn it an R rating). It does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic...
...England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club championship for the second straight time by defeating his disputatious U.S. rival, Jimmy Connors 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in a blistering finals match worthy of a centenary celebration. Both players had been forced to earn their passage to center court by staving off challenges from impressive newcomers, but their confrontation Saturday was a tumultuous struggle between the world's best as Connors, 24, the tournament's top-seeded player, and Borg, ranked second, traded slashing ground strokes to the bitter end. Fittingly, it was youth that...
...provide a development budget. But they pay their own people extraordinarily well for serving two-year terms in the harsh climate, where daytime temperatures often top 115°. A junior sergeant serving in Djibouti can make nearly $20,000 a year, up to four times what he might earn in France. "They come here to serve their time, make their pile for a house or plot of ground back home, and then leave with it," says a British shipping agent who has lived in Djibouti many years. "They get rich and Djibouti gets nothing. That's not enlightened colonialism...