Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic expansion and called for their immediate repeal. In answer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins made brutally clear, "the hard facts of life" gave Britain little choice. In 1967, he pointed out, prices increased only 2% while wages jumped 6%. "The only trouble was that we did not earn it," he said. "Production that year went up by only about...
...petition being circulated at Radcliffe urges students not to strikebreak by doing their own serving. The petition, organized by an ad hoc committee unaffiliated with any other group, claims that "waitresses earn $1.44 an hour, maids earn $1.84 an hour but can only work part time, and janitors earn $2.45 an hour...
...near to the height of their popularity. They were already rich, sure, but how many other performers turned their backs on that much money, adulation, and love...turned their backs on it because it wasn't, well, fun anymore? Fun! Don't they realize man has to sweat to earn his bread? Don't they realize that show business is a business, and that you have to get while the getting's good? Don't they know that life isn't all fun and games? that adults sometimes have to do things they don't like? For Chrissake, Brain, they...
...current pay raise, made after several months of study by Dean Elder's office, maintains the pay differential. In addition to the pay that GSAS students may earn as teaching fellows (each is allowed to teach up to three "fifths"), many are granted scholarships to cover part of their tuition...
Brinton once described the start of his teaching career at Harvard: "My first chance at teaching was History 14--the French Revolution course," he recalled. "A fellow faculty member gave me the opportunity of lecturing to the Chiffes to earn some extra money. That was in 1926. When I became an assistant professor I was allowed another half course, and so I brought in History 34 in the early thirties. It's been going now off and on for thirty-five years...