Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electrical-engineering graduate of the University of Wisconsin ('28), Romnes climbed poles as a lineman in summer to earn tuition, began full-time work after graduation as a Bell Laboratories researcher, still holds six patents for his work on telephone circuits. He later went to the Long Lines Department, dealt with local problems as chief engineer for Illinois Bell Telephone, got manufacturing experience as president of Western Electric, and learned finance and administration as a vice president, vice chairman and finally president of the parent company...
...attorney for the same $38,977 estate that Jackson-Payne had worked over. Only McClain, whose services had been legal enough, had received a whopping fee of $8,625. Working at the rate of $25 an hour, he would have had to put in 345 hours to earn his paya staggering amount of time to spend on so small an estate...
...case is presented by Milton Friedman, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He argues that it would cost the government about $5 billion annually to make military salaries. Friedman claims that we are "taxing" young men in the army by paying them less than what they could earn on the open market. If these "taxes," he continues, are added to the present military budget, it will actually be cheaper to pay for a volunteer army. The obvious and over-riding advantage of such an army is that the amount of coersion in society is reduced...
...ENDS: Charles ("Bubba") Smith, 21, Michigan State, 6 ft. 7 in., 283 Ibs., and Alan Page, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 5 in., 238 Ibs. Smith's size alone is enough to earn him raves, but the cheers are muffled by doubts: "He is a mauler. But his trouble is that he fails to go all out all the time. Maybe for money he will-but in college he would kill you for three plays, then rest for two." Page's problem, if any, is just the opposite-overeagerness. "He is so quick that...
Better education would enable more people to earn higher incomes, which in turn would allow them to consume more of our manufactured goods. The long-run effects of such a policy would surely be a greater benefit to our shortsighted industrialists in terms of increased sales and good will than would the production of more junk...