Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whoever buys the oil, the companies that discovered it and built the pipeline stand to earn staggering revenues from their investment-$5 billion annually if the U.S. economy continues to recover. The companies with the largest stake in the pipeline would be Sohio, Arco and Exxon. Already, seven of the eight consortium companies have filed proposed shipping charges with the Interstate Commerce Commission. They are stiff, ranging from $6.04 to $6.44 per bbl. just to get the crude from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez...
...result, wheat prices have dropped to little more than $2 per bu., v. an average of almost $3 for last year's crop. Growers complain that if prices continue to slip they will not earn enough to cover production costs. Says Earl Hayes, president of the Kansas Wheat Growers Association: "Wheat farmers are in a severely depressed situation." Net farm income has already fallen from an alltime high of $33 billion in 1973 to $22 billion last year, and has continued to decline so far in 1977. Much of the rise in food prices in recent years, says Hayes...
...their competitive position by organization - and recently blue collars have won ascendancy over poorly organized white collars in average salary. In all systems, the factor of supply and demand is at work as an influence if not an iron law - even in show biz. The great majority of performers earn meager sums, primarily because of the excessive supply of aspirants. For them, as Economics Professor Clair Vickery of the University of California's Institute of Industrial Relations in Berkeley puts it, a performing job is like "buying a ticket in a lottery." It mainly feeds the dream of that...
...weighed submerged in water to determine what proportion of his body weight is fat. Runners punch their times into a computer and receive their points. At the end of each month they get a printout of their progress. Thirty points a week, says Cooper, will maintain condition. Some overachievers earn...
Other Crimson notables included Ed Ajootian, whose best hammer throw of the day on Friday sailed over the 190 mark to earn him a fourth place berth in that event, which was won by his old nemesis Bill Johnston of Northeastern. Ajootian bested Johnston on the final throw in last year's competition...