Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sales down as much as 30%-Motown Record Corp., the black pop-music giant, has given Megastar Stevie Wonder, 25, a new contract for a guaranteed minimum of $13 million. If the singer-songwriter delivers more than the single annual LP required by the seven-year agreement, he can earn up to $24 million. The largest parcel handed out yet by a record company, Wonder's contract is worth as much as the Elton John ($8 million) and Neil Diamond (about $5 million) deals combined. Motown's announcement is strategically timed. There were rumors that Stevie might skip...
...that it should handle his first national plan, for the American College of Surgeons. After borrowing $2,000 to pay for, among other things, two suits, his first manicure and a plane ticket to the ACS convention in San Francisco, Finley was on his way to deals that would earn him over $1 million in commissions the following year...
...that could be sold to keep exports close to normal levels over the next three years, until newly planted trees yield a crop. Any slack could be taken up by other producers, primarily in Colombia, who will benefit greatly from the higher prices. Those prices may enable Brazil to earn $500 million more on coffee sales in the next twelve months than it would have if there had been no frost...
...vehicles: a personal trolley-auto advocated by Ronald Uher of Crystal Lake, Ill., for example, could either hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there was San Diego Bus Fleet Owner Jack Haberstroh...
...literature about the Harvard Summer School is small and, alas, not particularly distinguished. It consists, in fact, of one book--a light romantic novel, written in 1899 by one Arthur Stanwood Pier and called The Pedagogues: A Story of the Harvard Summer School. The Pedagogues has understandably failed to earn for itself a lasting place in American literature; it is an inconsequential tale about various romantic misalliances in a Summer School English composition class populated by small-town high school teachers. It has very little sweeping design or extraordinary depth or memorable character-portrayal or that sort of thing...