Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents barely earn $5,000 a year; yet, out of eight children, four have recently graduated from college and a fifth is on his way. Perhaps it is not the "high cost of learning" but the high standards of living that cause this problem for many Americans...
...Second best" is the highest accolade the American Basketball Association has managed to earn in its nine-year struggle to gain equality with the National Basketball Association. Nonetheless, the caliber of performance in the A.B.A. championship play-off series that ended last week between the New York Nets and the Denver Nuggets was as good as anything the N.B.A. has ever produced. Forward Julius ("Dr. J") Erving of the Nets came on like a bionic man; he averaged 38 points a game and led both teams in rebounds, steals, assists and shots blocked. The Nuggets, in the finals...
...spent five days putt-putting for the cameras outside her Italian villa, now joins some other well-known Westerners who advertise wares on the Japanese tube. Among them: Actors Charles Bronson (men's cosmetics), Orson Welles (whisky) and Peter Folk (clothes). Her own work as motorbike saleswoman will earn Loren $200,000 a year-surely enough to keep her chauffeured...
President Bok came forward to volunteer a rare public statement, fervidly rejecting Davis's allegations regarding some minority students dubious qualifications to earn an M.D. degree. Sources close to Bok say that he was personally bothered by Davis's remarks, and that the implications they have for all minority students are inappropriate and unfair...
...post-Viet Nam sentiments that the U.S. should not be pushed around in its own hemisphere by, in Reagan's words, "a tinhorn dictator." Insists Reagan: "The Latin American countries have a respect for macho. I think if the United States reacts with firmness and fairness, we might not earn their love, but we would earn their respect...