Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robber would get eight years. At the time of sentencing, the total could be reduced or increased by the judge because of mitigating or aggravating circumstances. But apart from that adjustment, a given sentence would be mandatory. Each day of good behavior in prison would earn the convict a day's reduction of the sentence; parole would be abolished. Says Commission Director David Fogel: "Justice requires that everything be clear...
...earn their breakfast, the 15,000 G.l.s of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division collectively run some 60,000 miles every morning-4 miles per man (including officers) in at least 32 minutes. The division has good reason for keeping its men in top shape: it defends a 500-sq.-mi. area bestriding the Uijongbu Corridor, traditional invasion route to Seoul and a mere 15 miles from...
...Lindsay, even though they never learned to like him. By the time he left office in 1974, the unions had won wages and benefits that largely outstripped any others in public employment in the country. After three years on the job, a New York City cop is scheduled to earn $17,458 a year and a sanitation man $15,731. A full professor in the city university makes from $24,000 to $38,000 a year; a teacher in the secondary-school system receives an annual salary ranging from $9,700 to $20,350. Teachers earn more pay, in fact...
...Replace retiring park laborers, who earn from $14,000 to $17,000 a year, with unemployed youths who will work at the minimum wage of $2.10 an hour...
...Francisco, 12,000 youths have applied for 4,400 part-time jobs paying $2.10 an hour; the program is open to youngsters from families that are on welfare or earn incomes below the poverty line, now set at $5,050 a year for a nonfarm family of four. In St. Louis, 30,000 to 40,000 youths are expected to sign up for about 4,900 public service jobs, and Chicago will have at most 42,000 positions to offer to three times as many applicants. That assumes that some federal funds will be forthcoming to supplement the city...