Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill to reduce discrimination. Under the new law, racial restrictions in hotels and restaurants are theoretically abolished, and the country's 6.2 million blacks are now allowed to buy millions of acres of prime farm land formerly reserved for the 270,000 whites. One catch: few blacks (who earn an average income of $565 per year, v. $8,200 for the average white) can afford the land...
...toolmakers, a craftsmanly elite among auto workers, earn an average $110 a week. The pay is higher than for most assembly-line laborers, but the differential has eroded under 20 months of Phase 1 and Phase 2 government wage control. As a small minority in the A.U.E.W., the toolmakers resent the union leadership and want to negotiate with Leyland directly. Skilled workers elsewhere rallied to their support. Some 400 Rolls-Royce toolmakers staged a one-day sympathy strike...
...young clarinetist was struggling to earn his band a name. The band played mainstream music with something extra--they blew big band jazz with an insistent get-up-and-dance beat. The band's early audiences came for the jazz, not the dance beat. At first there were problems--in Denver those who came to listen asked for their money back. But in Oakland, California, in late summer, the right audience came. They wanted that beat. They got it and loved it and the band moved on to its big break, playing Hollywood's Palomar Ballroom in a series...
...Country. In his new job as director of the University of Tulsa's National Energy Law and Policy Institute, Kent Frizzell will earn only $2,000 a year more than the $42,000 he made as Under Secretary of the Interior. But he has found other compensations. "I'm back to God's country and sanity, and frankly, it's cheaper to live out here...
...Harvard Student Union, a left-wing political group, and spent so much time working for the organization that his grades dropped and he lost his scholarship. Unable to land a job as a journalist after leaving school in 1938, Seeger started to use his musical talents to earn a living, travelling around the country playing the guitar...