Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale pounded at the Crimson, out-shooting it, 19-11. But goalie Ben Bryan played his usual superb game, making ten saves and allowing only one tally. Substitute forward John Challenger knocked home his first career goal to earn the draw...
...spender. Treat your date to the Crimson's special Yale Game edition, on sale outside the stadium today. Earn his eternal gratitude and admiration, for only twenty-five cents...
...Differences. However long the strike lasts, the coal situation will aggravate inflation. The miners are determined to win an increase of about 40% in wages and benefits over three years, which would equal the increase won by steelworkers last April. Late last week the miners, who earn between $41 and $50 a day, won their demand for wage boosts of 8% in the first year of a new three-year contract and 4% in each of the next two years. But key differences remain. The operators have offered the union its first cost of living escalator, calling for a penny...
...days of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, a journalist named John Converse takes up with a bored American expatriate woman in Saigon. She invites him to buy an interest in three kilograms of pure heroin. Once this deadly package is safely Stateside and distributed to her friends, Converse will earn $40,000. He agrees, persuades an acquaintance, Ray Hicks, to smuggle the heroin to California. There, Converse's wife Marge will take possession and pay Hicks...
Perhaps the best way to examine the assertion that piece rates regularly generate farmworker earnings in the range of $8000-$15,000 annually is to consider the potential yearly earnings under, ideal conditions, of the highest paid farm laborers--the lettuce and grape workers under union contracts. The lettuce worker contracts provide for wages of $2.44-$2.49 per hour and piece rates of 42-45 cents per box. If (1) climate and crop conditions are excellent; (2) a worker follows the year-round lettuce harvest from Arizona up the California valleys; (3) the laborer cuts lettuce (the most back-breaking...