Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chasing Hares. Goldwater questioned statistics on U.S. poverty, declared that income levels considered low in the U.S. "are regarded as true wealth in the rest of the world. Workers in many other countries cannot earn as much as our welfare clients receive. It is like greyhounds chasing a mechanical hare. You never catch up. There will always be a lowest one-third or one-fifth." Instead of being given handouts, said Goldwater, persons on relief should be put to work on community projects...
Green Goods. For the most part, though, the big firms still earn their big money drawing up contracts. Factory-fashioned transactions often involve many millions of dollars-large transfers of property, huge bank loans, corporate mergers. Shepherding new stock issues is an especially profitable type of business, affectionately referred to among Wall Street lawyers as handling "green goods...
...nostalgic appeal. When Dolly Levi (Carol Channing), widow and matchmaker, fondles a cash register after announcing that she plans to marry its owner, she carries the mind back to a time when women needed and cherished men for their money, and in a day when wives sometimes earn as much or more than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived to grind his employees under heel turns up in Dolly as Horace Vandergelder (David Burns), the matchmaker's mate-to-be, and announces with refreshing pride that...
...buys one-quarter of the nation's foil, is the third biggest user of cellophane and one of the largest consumers of paper products. Its $250 million-a-year advertising budget helps to support the nation's communications media-newspapers, magazines and, notably, television. Tobacco taxes earn more than $1 billion for the 50 states, more than $2 billion for the Federal Government...
Under the Yale program, students may earn both a bachelor's and a master's degree within four years. The idea was considered and rejected at Harvard several years ago, according to Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing...