Word: earn
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...surprise that most members of this year's team will be working extra hard to earn one of the seven spots on the squad for matches, as Harvard has one of the most balanced squads in a while. That is, there are no super stars like Art Burke and Quinn Smith who departed with graduation last year...
...experimental and limited financial aspects of this program should be stressed," Moore said, "because this is not an employment service, but an intern program in the public sector, designed not to automatically exclude people who need to earn money for college expenses from taking these public sector jobs, which don't pay as much as many other jobs...
...Force even turns down some men with master's degrees. All over the U.S. employers find they can fill jobs that pay only $2 or $2.25 an hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston, 49, of Berkeley, Calif, has been a medical microbiologist for 23 years and unemployed for the past 17 months. Says she: "Nobody...
High unemployment also imposes hidden psychological costs on people who never stand in an unemployment line but nonetheless feel frustrated in their attempts to live by the work ethic. The longtime housewife who would like to pursue a career and earn her own money; the student who wishes to "stop out" of college for a year to help finance his education; the bored pensioner who yearns to devote his training to something more than basking in the sun-all are likely to give up the job quest. None may suffer hardship, but all have lost some freedom of choice...
...reassuring that we all "profit" from the arms trade [March 31; "A jet fighter can earn as much foreign currency as the sale of 1,000 autos." War? It's just good economics...