Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...papers, noted the report, are overstaffed by some 4,000 men, many of whom do little to earn their pay. The cost to the industry of this featherbedding: a debilitating $13.6 million a year. Despite the waste, continued the report, management has too often shown little inclination to do battle with the unions. Instead, it makes a habit of "succumbing to extreme pressure." Sometimes it even succumbs in ad vance. It was long believed, for instance, that the Guardian was forced to print in both London and Manchester because of union insistence. In fact, the Guardian management never formally discussed...
...that the book is ready to roll, insiders estimate that hard-cover sales will earn some $2,000,000 for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, and Author Manchester, who has often said that he did not expect to make much from the work, will get rewards from magazine, Book-of-the-Month Club, foreign and paperback rights that will add up to a tidy fortune of more than...
...worst of the military's staff-stuffy ways, Posvar was born in Topeka, and raised in Cleveland, where he topped his high school class. At West Point, he racked up the best academic record since Douglas MacArthur's cadet days, became the first Air Force officer to earn a Rhodes scholarship. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford and has a doctorate from Harvard in political science...
...south; so the Tigers rode a railroad coach for 101½ hours, arrived in Chapel Hill at 7:30 a.m. on the day of the game. They sank 65.5% of their shots to win 91-81. Coupled with last week's victory over Harvard, that was enough to earn Princeton No. 7 position in the Associated Press rankings, No. 9 in the United Press International poll...
...Welch, whose acting ability ranges from busty to hippy, and 3) conversation with his dumb uncle (Eduardo De Filippo), who hasn't spoken to anyone in 50 years and communicates by blasting off homemade firecrackers. By the time the non-crime is non-solved, the movie may well earn itself a theaterful of non-viewers...