Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours of nonstop negotiations between a faculty committee and minority-group students. Under the plan, which would start in the fall of 1970, half of the freshmen class (including slum whites) would be admitted from ghetto areas "without regard to grades." After tutoring, they could go on to earn degrees in perhaps six or eight years. A key goal: promoting hope and incentive in slum high schools. Arthur Bierman, a physics professor and faculty negotiator, who initially opposed the whole idea, was eventually sold by the student negotiators' sincerity. "Unlike the white radicals," he said, "they are trying...
...course, perhaps enough to hasten the shakeout period that in any new business follows the opening era of heady growth. That would be all to the good. Investors as well as prospective patients need to know which of the chains, behind their sparkling fronts, have developed an ability to earn a profit while meeting exacting standards. Meanwhile, those selecting either nursing-home beds or nursing-home stocks must choose with great care...
...amount which a student is expected to contribute from term-time earnings-or by taking out a loan-has been raised from $500 to $600. Currently, dorm crew and dining hall workers earn from $700 to $800 a year by working 8 to 10 hours a week, he said...
...runner-up to the Cliffies was M.I.T. The Tech girls' point total of 39 was five too many to earn first place. Jackson (48) and Boston University (49) were third and fourth. Other entries included Skidmore, Simmons, Wellesley, and Mount Holyoke...
...National Industrial Conference Board, a private center for business research. Two years in preparation by a dozen of the board's staff economists, the study projects remarkable advances in family income, now averaging $9,300. By the end of the next decade, the typical American household will earn almost $14,000 - in terms of today's prices - and enjoy a 40% increase in the real standard of living. At the same time, the number of families with incomes above $10,000 will rise from 15 million to 34 million. Those with less than $5,000 will decrease from...