Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student borrows money from a federally-backed program, or takes a job funded by the federal government, a ceiling on the amount of money he can earn is imposed. The current problem arises, John S. Harwell, director of the Student Employment Office explained, because in the past Harvard has not--with the exception of students on work-study programs--enforced the ceiling, and has allowed students to earn more than their self-help expectation...
Down the long corridor from Ulam, the center's premier figure, is Doctorow, who has yet to earn his academic spurs. Like most institutions, a favorite word describing many topics is used at the center--"deplorable--and Ulam, the veteran, and Doctorow assails the present Soviet regime as "deplorable." He claims that the recent inability of doctoral programs in history and Soviet studies to find jobs for their graduates is "morally deplorable." And when asked about the center's present financial condition, the director focuses on his pipe and responds "it's deplorable...
When Manson entered prison, he was looking for protection against such prison hassles as homosexual assault and beatings, which the brotherhood gladly provided. To earn the favor, Manson had the women of the family mail nude photos of themselves to members of the brotherhood, along with promises of sexual favors when the men were released. More important, the girls agreed to serve as messengers to the outside for the brotherhood. "Charlie wants to do easy time," explains a prison official. "He knew the brotherhood could protect him inside, and the communications link is very important to them." The ties...
...greater stimulation in the Big Three economies is straightforward. These countries, the argument goes, have healthy trade surpluses and are entering a period of recovery while other nations are still mired in recession. The weaker countries could solve their unemployment and inflation problems much more quickly if they could earn more through increased exports of goods and raw materials to the U.S., West Germany and Japan; thus those countries should be willing to stir up their domestic economies through more aggressive fiscal and monetary measures. Not until the weaker countries begin to prosper again through trade, the argument continues, will...
...that Ali "learned ... to move side to side from Louis Rodriguez and to lay on the ropes from Sugar Ray ..." "Lay" for "lie" may be a weak paraphrase of fighters' talk, though the context makes this seem unlikely. But a few pages later there is something that would earn an automatic C minus in freshman English: "No one ever looked good wearing out their hands on Chuvalo...