Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took some himself. He devalued the peso to 18 per dollar (from a scale that ranged, depending on the commodity involved, between five and 14). That was "decisive encouragement" for farmers, who in effect got an incentive-creating boost in the pesos they get for the dollars their exports earn abroad...
Elder said he would like to put a time limit on graduate study because many GSAS students at present seem to be "treading water." He pointed out that whereas most Natural Sciences students earn their Ph.D. 's in three years, in liberal arts departments the period is often five or six years and occasionally as long as nine years
Bundy added, however, that he would like to free this money for other uses by "getting people to endow the whole athletic operation." A capital investment of 10 million dollars would earn enough yearly interest to put the H.A.A. in the black and keep it there indefinitely, he said...
...Much Cash? Wall Street's financial experts criticize the tendency of Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price a onetime banker, to hang onto the company cash instead of putting it to work to earn more cash. Westinghouse has a larger cash reserve ($344 million) than G.E ($307 million), which does twice as much business. While loaded with cash, Westinghouse has been borrowing for expansion, now has a debt of $325 million, G.E. has none...
Bill Meigs accomplished a very rare feat last year. On a Harvard team which had a luke-warm (4-3-1) season, and which drew a minimum of national attention to its games, Meigs was able to earn enough votes to gain a place on the Associated Press All-American second team...