Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they exposed patients to the pleasures of cigarettes, television, a choice of roommates, social events and even walks around the hospital grounds. Then they announced that, henceforth, patients would have to "buy" everything except regular meals, a bed in the least desirable room and their prescribed medicines. They could earn metal "tokens" to make purchases simply by demonstrating normal behavior. Attendants then began handing out tokens for the largest amount of useful behavior that each patient could manage at the time...
Soon 30% of the patients were able to earn tokens for working six hours a day in jobs such as laboratory assistant or clerical worker. Just as important, unrewarded behavior-including tantrums and imaginary conversations with spirits -declined drastically. As they saved up tokens for such expensive items as trips to town, most patients began to exercise the "normal" mental processes of choice and thinking ahead...
...people are finding their mailboxes crammed with unsolicited applications for bank credit cards that promise, among many other things, instant loans of up to $500. The card craze has spread as banks have intensified attempts to expand in the consumer credit field, which can be enormously profitable. Banks often earn a true annual interest of 18% on merchandise charged on the credit cards, and 12% to 24% on the "instant money" that a customer can borrow upon presenting his card at the bank...
Volume is a major reason for the low cost of mobile homes, which constitute the only truly industrialized housing available on a large scale in the U.S. today. Skyline's nonunionized workers commonly earn up to $12,000 a year because base pay is increased by an incentive system that keeps the men on the run along the production lines...
...vast majority of our students understand the advantages of business activity," says Jaakko Saarinen, a 27-year-old student hotel manager. One reason is that almost all Finnish students come from families of modest means and have to start thinking early about how to earn a living...