Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school in Wilmington, Calif. Students, most in their early twenties, learn the physics and physiology of diving, later advance to underwater welding, rigging, salvage, photography, even television. The divers are paid handsomely: salaries range mostly from $17,000 to $35,000 a year, and a few divers in Alaska earn more than Handelman's salary...
...eclipsed by French Superstar Jean-Claude Killy; in the final race that year, Sabich split several vertebrae in a brutal fall at Aspen. The next season he suffered a knee injury that plagued him throughout 1975-when he failed to earn a cent on the pro circuit. This year he had earned only...
DURING THE BOOM decades since World War II, millions of temporary workers have streamed into the industrial centers of western Europe to provide them with unskilled labor. The immigrants come from all the underdeveloped countries of the Mediterranean, hoping to earn enough in a few years up north to build a house or open a small business in their villages--or often enough, simply to survive where unemployment ranges from 20 to 50 per cent. Known in West Germany as gastarbeiter (guestworkers), and in France as hommes deracines (rootless men), these workers are concentrated in the worst paid, most arduous...
...hard to remember now, three months later, why everyone was standing in line on Boylston Street a half a block from the Jazz Workshop on Thursday January 8 at 7 p.m. in 16 degree weather hoping to earn the privilege of paying $4 to get into a crowded booze room to hear--what? Gender ambiguity...
...lowest games do not score. The total number of points that a team's games earn is the team score, and the highest score wins the match...