Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earn money to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Mondale worked as a pea-aphid inspector for the Green Giant company in the town of Blue Earth. It was at Macalester that Mondale first got involved with Hubert Humphrey and set his career on the course that was to carry him to the vice-presidential nomination...
...says of his sojourn at the ashram, "I'm in love for the first time in my life. I'm in love with life. Before this I was in business. Today I am more creative. When I go back to my business, I'll probably earn $200,000 a year...
...dramatized the near confiscatory nature of Sweden's tax structure, which inhibits individual initiative. Sven Stolpe, 70, one of Sweden's most distinguished writers, announced last month that he had burned the manuscripts for a new five-volume series of novels. His angry explanation: "Practically everything I earn is taxed around 100%. It is all my life's work that is being stolen." Silversmith Rey Urban, 46, moans that while his products are in demand everywhere, "I don't dare produce on a large scale" because of the taxes. In order to avoid records of transactions...
...garden and the cage of canaries that sing all day. Now we must leave it all behind. But they tell me America is a nice place." Theodosios Kaffas is determined to make it so. A barber who had to go out of business, a restaurant cook who couldn't earn more than $300 a month, he has dreamed of going to America ever since he was a boy. Now he is 36. "Argos is a good place for those who own fields and orange groves," says Kaffas, "but the workers are better paid in America. I want a better life...
...children, says Eloina, that they left the Dominican Republic. "The political situation at home was bad. The people were treated bad. We asked ourselves, 'How can we earn enough to feed ourselves? How can we raise our children?' " Erasmo was the first to emigrate, sponsored by a sister. He got a job washing dishes for $75 a week, paid his sister $10 for room and board, and saved the rest. In three years he had enough to send for Eloina, and she got a job as a sewing-machine operator. In another three years they sent for their four oldest...