Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally Ford's people were too busy indulging themselves to think that they would spend as much that week as millions of hardworking Americans earn in a year. Or, for that matter, too busy gaping at Ford to help out a young man disabled in a war the ex-Congressman plugged so vigorously...
...producers subsidized imports of staples. Office buildings, low-rent apartments and supermarkets rose almost everywhere. Some planners worried about keeping a work ethic going. Said a Saudi government minister: "We will have to be very careful not to spoil our citizens. Our people will have to deserve what they earn. We will furnish them with basic requirements, but nobody should live on charity...
...working member of human society. Some 50 ways in which they earn their living are well documented, including guiding, guarding, detecting, rescuing, protecting, defending, often spending and giving their lives in the service of mankind. And millions of families are able to sleep securely knowing that even the smallest family pet will warn of intrusion. Surely they earn their dog food...
...credits and technology from the West, which have enabled it to step up production in such critical industries as textiles, chemicals and oil. The Russians have also received a sizable windfall from the rise in world oil prices, which has increased the amount of badly needed hard currency they earn from the sale of oil to Western countries. Things are going well enough for the Soviets to again postpone reforms in the way they manage their economy. Last year Brezhnev demanded "serious efforts to improve" planning. This time he apparently did not even mention reforms...
Move over, Howard Cosell. "I don't want to be just a tennis player," said Billie Jean King, 31, last week. The five-time Wimbledon singles champ and four-time Forest Hills singles winner who in 1971 became the first woman athlete ever to earn more than $100,000 a year announced that she had won a two-year contract from ABC Sports. Her salary is estimated to be in six figures. "I would never take less than a man," she said succinctly. Between commitments, King will comment on a variety of network programs, cover the 1976 Olympics...