Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ferrara disputes my statement that 25 per cent of all full-time farmworkers earn less than $5 a day, claiming that the actual figure is 11 per cent. Here he has read the wrong line of a table in the Agriculture Department's "The Hired Farm Working Force of 1970." 11 per cent of all "farmworkers"--including those who work only a few days a year in the fields--earn under $5 a day. But of full-time farmworkers--those working over 150 days a year--the figure is 25 per cent...
...only bright spot was an end to the 85-day walkout by United Parcel Service workers in the New York City area. The settlement means that UPS's 4,500 drivers and inside workers will earn $7.59 an hour after three years, compared with their current pay of $5.92. They also won a cost-of-living escalator and fringes that will lift their wage-and-benefit package by some...
...thereupon asked congressional investigating panels to ensure that the nominee would not use the office "to promote permissive abortion." While the bishops obviously had the right to criticize, the strategy seemed out of keeping for a body that had just elected a conciliatory president-and also seemed unlikely to earn any friends for their cause...
...then Majors was itching for another move and Pitt was more than willing to pay the price. Johnny's brother Joe was dispatched to Pittsburgh under an assumed name to confer with school officials. He came back with the promise that Majors could recruit with few Limitations, would earn a salary estimated at $30,000 and have his own half-hour television show-a job worth at least $10,000. Majors was more than satisfied...
...tons of solid wastes daily in ten regional collection centers. The first will soon be built in Bridgeport by Garrett Co., which will sort garbage and sell every component?the metals, the fuel and even the ashes (for landfill or highway construction). If all goes well, the authority will earn $100 million a year by 1985; that will more than cover its costs. For then" part, Connecticut residents will save the $100 million that they used to pay for municipal garbage disposal. "There are no technological problems with garbage any more," concludes Rita L. Bowlby, an authority official. "All that...