Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kongsis, or sisterhoods, that pledge them to spinsterhood. Amahs from Hainan, on the other hand, are usually married. Their husbands used to be admirable Crichtons of colonial society, and their daughters in time used to follow mother's footsteps across the gleaming floors. Though well-trained amahs nowadays earn up to $70 a month-a high wage for Malaya-their daughters mostly prefer office and factory jobs that give them greater freedom with no overtones of colonialism...
...ports in the world can match Brazil's as places where dock hands earn more and more for doing less and less. No matter how small the cargo handled, union rules in most Brazilian ports require a crew of at least 13 stevedores. For crates weighing more than a ton, dockmen get an extra 30% of their base pay; for deteriorated cargo, 50%; for cold-storage cargo, an extra 100%. They draw 30% extra when it rains, even if the rain stops before they start working. Dusty cargo is worth a 25% bonus; smelly cargo, 35%. And when...
...salesman who sells a 121-year front-end plan at $20 a month, for example, collects $57 in commissions on the first year's payments of $240; if he sells a $1,000 one-payment plan, he gets only $32.50. Most mutual fund salesmen are part-timers who earn less than $1,000 a year, and many of them are ill-trained recruits who give up the game after less than one year...
Back to the Colonies. Members average a handsome 8% return on the money they risk (some underwriting chiefs earn $140,000 yearly), but changing times have brought them modern-day migraines. British competitors are merging into scrappier combines, international airlines are buzzing about pooling their assets for self-insurance, and nationalistic governments are pressuring their businessmen to place more of their insurance at home...
...balance-of-payments problems too. The East enjoys a small surplus in the $9 billion-a-year worth of East-West trade. But it needs much more to buy what it wants. So Russia and its satellites are up to new tricks and refurbishing old ways to earn hard Western currencies...