Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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America, America, how do you breed these mores? The adulteress would not "dirty" herself by accepting money; the whore would not stoop to sending her man off to work all day for wages she can earn in half an hour. A wonderful "market" for attorneys and orphanages and jailers. Corruption in Asia! Indeed...
...carrot content would have won wholehearted support. Job-training programs would be greatly expanded, more day-care centers would be established so that working mothers would have a place to leave their children. Not least, welfare recipients would be allowed to keep some of the money they earn. Under present rules, most welfare agencies are required to deduct every penny earned from welfare payments, in effect imposing a confiscatory 100% tax that discourages any attempt at getting...
...girls, they earn easily $150 each in a twelve-hour working day. But nearly all of them, in keeping with the age-old code of their craft, turn over their earnings to their pimps, many of whom manage stables of four or five tarts each and give them back no more than $10 a day for expenses. The girls in return seem to achieve one of their few genuine gratifications at the sight of their flashily attired ponces tooling down Broadway in chauffeured "hogs" (Cadillacs...
...stock certificates are received, sorted and delivered each day. Coming in all sizes and formats, the certificates so far defy automation's demand for uniformity, and so arcane is the art of shuffling them among brokerage houses and customers that experienced clerks are prized people who can earn five-figure incomes...
...GILP. Under GILP, students borrow money directly from banks; under NDEA they borrow funds from the federal government which were channeled through the college. To increase the banks' willingness to cooperate with GILP, the federal government guarantees each loan and pays part of the interest for borrowers whose families earn less than $15,000 per year...