Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undoubtedly is. While I have had to earn my bread as a political writer for most of my adult life, I have always paid for wine and dessert by writing on history, humor and the arts. And Harvard today is still crackling with creative energy as well as being steeped in history. Once you find your way around, it is an unfailing source of treasures, pleasures and surprises...many of them living people. Nor is it possible for the old stones and bricks of Harvard Yard, the dormitories, the classrooms, the libraries and the churches, to have witnessed so much...
Many defaults, of course, come about because, at a time of high unemployment, new graduates either cannot find jobs or earn too little to pay off their loans. Still, the default rate obviously indicates lax Government administration of FISL. John J. Walsh, an investigator for the subcommittee, reported to the Senators that he found files on student loans strewn all over some HEW regional offices. HEW officials told the Senators that they have not kept track of the total number of loans outstanding, much less the amount of insured loans at any one school, or whether any particular student borrower...
...World War II, Bloomingdale's was a fairly conventional store. Then I.E. Davidson, the store's boss from 1947 to 1967, began the big move. He dropped major appliances. Later Traub dropped other items that most competing stores carried: drugs, cameras, records. They sold well but did not earn much profit. In their place went goods aimed at people who had money to spend on more than boring necessities. The result in microcosm: Bloomingdale's sells no men's razors, but it does sell bloc of duck liver with green pepper...
Part of the answer is related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's $30,000 October shopping spree. In one afternoon Mrs. Onassis spent more than most of the families of Black students here earn in an entire year. If any college can possibly equip a young woman with the skills necessary to earn as much as Jackie Onassis's clothing bill, this is the place. Or so the story goes. Even the illusion of a promise keeps the applications coming...
...scoreboard read 2-2, but for the Radcliffe field hockey squad, Saturday's deadlock with potent Yale was the biggest 'triumph' of its rebuilding campaign. For in struggling from behind to earn the tie, the cohesive Cliffe stickers proved that they had come full circle in their development...