Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic program returns 94% of the total tax relief to individuals who earn less than $20,000 a year and 52% to those with an annual income of less than $10,000. Ford, on the other hand, gives 43% of the tax cut to taxpayers who earn more than $20,000 a year and only 15% to those with incomes under $10,000. Republicans on Ways and Means argue that middle-income individuals, pushed into higher tax brackets by inflation, also deserve a tax break, a point that the President has continually emphasized. G.O.P. legislators may try to give them...
...billion for the Saudis, 35.3 billion for the U.S.), Peking expects oil eventually to become China's principal foreign exchange earner. Like other oil exporters, China will be able to benefit politically. In 1974 Peking exported some 30.5 million bbl. of crude (up 430% over 1973) to Japan, earning $442 million; the reason was not only to earn foreign currency but to dissuade Japan from its plans to exploit Siberian gas fields...
...grew up in that city, the son of an immigrant Russian Jewish pharmacist. At Princeton, he excelled in romance languages and stopping balls as the varsity shortstop. Berg lacked confidence that he could make it in the majors, but he reasoned that baseball was the most enjoyable way to earn enough money to study phonetics at the Sorbonne. The Brooklyn Dodgers, who probably thought Berg had said something about liking sour buns, offered him a $5,000 contract...
...wages of general oilfield workers have moved up from $6 to $6.44 an hour, first-class machinists who got $3.50 last summer are getting $5.65 an hour, while stenographers have jumped from $400 to $705 a month. Lynda Armstrong, 31, abandoned her ambition to be a nightclub singer to earn $1,000 a month as an oil-patch roustabout. "I'm no women's libber," she says. "I just want to do it if I can and let them...
...thriving along with the boom. Patrons often have to wait for 45 minutes on weekends for a table at the Oilpatch, one of the most expensive spots in town. For Herbert Graham, 35, and his brother Phillip, 34, business is so good that they have been able to earn back their original $100,000 investment in The Other Place, a discotheque they opened a year ago, in just five months. Last month they opened another nightclub, the Continental Cowboy. "We were thinking of going out of town to build," says Herb, "but our bankers said...