Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airlines' biggest problems is the virtual impossibility of getting equity capital when profits are falling. Warned Benjamin Clark, general partner of Manhattan's White, Weld & Co.: Unless the air-transport industry can earn the favorable opinion of investors, and in particular of the professional investor, "either the industry's progress will stop or the taxpayers will have to subsidize it again." So far are investors from that state of mind right now, said Clark, that "we can visualize the industry, even with reasonably good luck, being able to generate only $227 million of the $610 million still...
...their first winter of blizzards and long, lonely nights, 600 Americans and Canadians (98% of them civilian technicians who earn up to $13,800 a year) man the isolated DEW line stations, watching luminescent oscilloscopes in darkened rooms. Without the ability to intercept or even to defend themselves (an attack on them would in itself constitute a warning, and thus fulfill the DEW line's purpose), they have a single mission: to detect penetration of the radar fence by unidentified aircraft...
...Conversation with Igor Stravinsky, filmed on the eve of the composer's 75th birthday, was an uninterrupted half hour of disarming intimacy and directness. Other conductors, he chuckled, get "furious" when he conducts his own works ("They consider it competition"), but "you earn more as a conductor" than as a composer. "Music," Stravinsky explained, "is an organization of tones-an act of the human mind." For him organization began at the age of eight. "I was playing a scale on the piano. I thought, if somebody invented the scale, I can change something in the scale and invent something...
...Francisco for Harvard College's $82.5 million fund-raising campaign, President Nathan Pusey highlighted some figures that should give Americans pause: while the average salary of the American college teacher is $5,400, "in Russia the basic professor's salary is $18,000, and the top professors earn $35,000 to $50,000." U.S. experts do not know exactly how many professors earn such salaries, but the figures provide startling evidence of the high prestige that teachers enjoy in Soviet society...
Unlike the M.D. or the LL.B., the Ph.D. does not lead to any one profession, and therefore the time needed to earn it varies from school to school and field to field. "Generally, the Ph.D. takes at least four years to get; more often it takes six or seven, and not infrequently 10 to 15. Too many programs have taken too many years simply because faculty members and the graduate office have failed to give hardheaded advice at the right time, have shied away from making their students work hard enough, and have generally thought a well-bred...