Word: earned
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...AGRICULTURE. The richest field for cutting is down on the farm, home of the nation's most coddled minority. Farm subsidies are now $3.3 billion-compared with less than $1 billion under the Eisenhower Administration in 1960-and one-fifth of the handouts go to farmers who earn more than $10,000. Not only are subsidies a cause of rising food prices, but it makes little sense for the Government to pay farmers to produce less when hunger stalks half the world. A poll of 5,000 farmers by the influential Farm Journal showed that 63% of them favor...
KQED is also subsidized in effect by its 130-member staff, many of whom could earn far more in commercial broadcasting. Top man is General Manager James Day, who dates back to the 1953 beginnings, when KQED was headquartered in the back seat of a station wagon. Today, the channel's offices are three splintering wooden warehouses near Skid Row. The studios are not even soundproof (fire engines offer contrapuntal competition...
...Ford president was careful to avoid the pitfall of incentive-destroying programs in which "every dollar increase in earned income is entirely off set by withdrawal of a dollar in welfare payments." Instead, he said, "when a member of a family began to earn income, the basic allowance would automatically be reduced by an offsetting tax, but not by a corresponding amount. A family with a member at work would always be better off than a family with out anyone at work...
Andrew P. Tobias '68, president of HSA, said yesterday that How to Earn Money in College, a new book which will offer HSA's advice on making money to newer student agencies on other campuses, will appear in January...
...received no payment for the Temple scroll -- no longer trust Kondo or the scholars. It is believed they still possess some 20 scrolls from the 1956 Cave 11 excavation, said Cross. These, and any more they find, will probably be sold on the open market, where they may earn 10 times more money than they would have through the old channel system, where the Jordanian government set a reasonable price and imprisoned those caught selling to anyone who would remove the scrolls from the country...