Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
Statue Painters. An increasing number of illegals have landed desirable jobs. According to Chapman, more than a third now employed are working in industry. Some Mexicans who have entered Texas illegally earn close to $5 an hour in small factories; one was even found managing a Laredo plastics plant at $20,000 a year. The INS'S files include reports of a Greek plumber earning $12 an hour, a Jamaican carpenter earning $7 an hour and a West Indian electronics engineer taking in $17,000 a year. An immigration raid on a Miami restaurant turned up 14 illegally entered...
Ingard said the Dartmouth team fought hard against the Crimson onslaught. "We had to earn all the victories. All the matches were close and they were difficult to predict early who would win," he said...
...experience that Sawhill brings to his demanding new job covers government, finance and higher education. A 1958 cum laude graduate of Princeton (where he wrestled and played hockey), he worked for Merrill Lynch, then entered N.Y.U.'s graduate school of business administration to earn a Ph.D. in economics while also holding down jobs of assistant dean and assistant professor. Returning to business, he rose to become $100,000-a-year senior vice president of Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co. before joining the Federal Government two years ago. As energy administrator, he was known as a "tough manager...
...memorial would well suit the way in which our leaders today conceive the role of the Founding Fathers. In Ford's words last Friday, 200 years ago there began a struggle that established our liberty a liberty both economic in its promise of a buck to those who can earn it and spiritual in its assurance of privacy to all who can accumulate enough to build a house in the suburbs...