Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven British-protected Trucial States that cradle the Persian Gulf, Abu Dhabi is the fourth largest oil producer in the Gulf; this year it expects to earn $70 million in oil revenues, which by 1970 are likely to reach an annual $125 million. Yet under Shakhbout, Abu Dhabi's 20,000 people seldom saw a cent of the riches...
...same time, he said, migrants from the countryside to cities are denied health services, education, and housing because they haven't the learning to earn the income and produce the reveneu to support these facilities...
Summer has become a time for vast migrations of college faculties. Nearly gone is the day when a professor had no choice but to work on his book at home or teach to earn extra cash. Rising university salaries and abundant foundation generosity have released him for exotic research and farflung adventure. Within the last decade, the number of professors going abroad during the school year nearly tripled, to a peak of 3,954 in 1965-66. During the summer, about 40% of the nation's 325,000 university teachers remain behind to teach...
While top professors at the University of California make more than $3,000 for staying behind to teach summer classes, the average college-faculty member can earn only about $1,300. This is hardly an inducement in an era when a professor can make $70 a day while on a Government-sponsored junket and as much as $150 when a foundation is backing him. The result is that while faculty members once fought over the summer jobs, now there are usually more openings than candidates...
Luck played a part in the comeback. Vast shoals of anchovies offshore have turned Peru's once-struggling fishing industry into one that will earn upwards of $180 million in exports, mainly of fishmeal, this year. Also, the worldwide copper shortage, made more acute by growing U.S. demands for the Viet Nam war, should send Peru's mineral exports well beyond last year's record $309 million...