Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some people-nobody has a good estimate of how many-are not actively looking for jobs but list themselves as unemployed in order to collect the benefits that are available. In scattered cases, the benefits amount to more than people can earn after deducting taxes and expenses and thus deter them from looking hard for work. Says an unemployed Miami secretary: "My take-home pay was $135 a week. I spent $35 for child care, about $10 getting back and forth to the office and maybe $10 for clothes to wear at work. I'm better off staying...
...center of the American health care system, but it recoils from striking at the heart of the beast. Somewhere in the shuffle of proposals, Kennedy's own recognition, expressed in a letter to The New York Times last March that "while 60 per cent of all American failies earn less than $15,000 a year, only 35 per cent of the students in medical school are their children," got lost. At Harvard, where the admissions policy is more liberal than most, only about 10 per cent of the student body could be classed as "poor white...
...Said Bus Driver Harold Lloyd, a Ford supporter from Middleburg, N.Y.: "His assets are over 25 years in Government and two years as President. He's done a lot to help the American people." But only 4 out of 10 argued that his positions on domestic issues should earn a strong rating...
...rancor separated the fighters. Ali had been guaranteed $6 million. Norton would earn $1 million. Sept. 28 was payday, but as they worked toward summits of conditioning, the world yawned. Ali is proud of his ability to sell tickets, and at the public prefight physical, he staged a vulgar, raucous demonstration...
...album for three months, but Wonder kept fiddling away at his unfinished work. Last week the wait ended as Stevie, clad in Lone Ranger rig, welcomed critics and reporters to North Brookfield, Mass., for a preview of Songs in the Key of Life. The record just might earn a silver bullet on the charts. Even before public release this week, more than 1 million copies of Songs have been sold...