Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institution. Except for the very rich, no one can continue to ignore an inflation rate of 30 per cent, prices that prevent some 10 per cent of the population from eating meat, or an unemployment rate that does not allow eight per cent of the labor force to earn a living. The ordinary citizen seems to have two alternatives: satirical laughter, or despair...
Brown is 8-2, 3-0 in the Ivy League, and ranked eighth in the country. Assuming that top-ranked Cornell beats Brown in their showdown two weeks from now, Harvard could earn second place in the Ivy League and an outside shot at a NCAA tournament bid by topping Brown today...
Some British theorists think that the Russians intend the new ships to serve an anticipated boom in East-West trade. The most popular explanation for the shipbuilding surge, though, reflects cold-war logic. The Soviets want the hard currency that their shipping industry can earn-especially U.S. dollars and West German marks-and the prestige that can come from showing the red flag around the world. Adds Karl-Heinz Sager, deputy chairman of Hamburg's Hapag-Lloyd shippers: "The Russians are also learning a great deal about the flows of trade and kinds of goods. That kind of information...
Family life plays the greatest role in Bruch's theory of who gets anorexia and why. "It is possible," she writes, "that the success, achievement, and appearance orientation of these families is in some way related to the patient's driving search for something that will earn him respect." Despite the apparent stability in the anorexic's home--very few come from broken homes--Bruch finds in the parents a deep disillusionment with each other. They are competing secretly to prove which is the better parent. The mother is likely to be an achievement-oriented woman, frustrated in her aspirations...
...each E.C.E. school's advisory committee, which shapes the overall program. Parent participation in ghetto schools has traditionally been a problem across the country and remains one in California, but the problem has been partially solved by using E.C.E. money to hire mothers as teaching aides. They earn $2,320 a school year for a 3-hr. day. For more help in the classroom, older children from nearby high schools have been recruited...