Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is high rent for a squalid neighborhood, but most of the tenants somehow scrape up the cash. They also take pride in keeping their new oasis tidy: the eight cans a day of "airmail"-garbage hurled out the window-have now shrunk to only one. To earn rapport with tenants accustomed to being disregarded, U.S. Gypsum assigned Salesman Warren Obey as fulltime project manager. "When Warren came here," says longtime tenant Zion R. Paige, "he had three strikes against him. He was white, he was with a big company, and he was telling a story. Everybody around here...
...surface, the strike seemed simply a matter of money. The seamen, who now earn about $56 for working 56 hours a week, want the same wage for a 40-hour week, plus overtime pay for the additional 16 hours. The raise would be far above the 3½% annual wage increase Wilson has laid down as the cornerstone of his policy of economic restraint...
...boys from private preparatory schools and leave the education of others to the red brick colleges and such new universities as Sussex and Essex. All of this lends credence to a recent howl by an undergraduate magazine that Oxford is "a piece of the medieval world in which few earn their keep and in which idleness, frivolity, conceit, class prejudice, petty politics and corruption are rife...
...biggest difference between Ford and G.M. this year concerns small, sporty cars. Ford's spunky Mustang has climbed to third place among all types, with sales up 11% to 211,793, and its success will probably earn for its creator, Group Vice President Lee lacocca, the presidency of Ford some day. G.M.'s scarcely competitive Corvair has been damaged so badly by criticism of the safety of its 196,063 models that sales are off 55% to 38,156, and its flop has hardly helped the ambitions of its creator, G.M. Executive Vice President Ed Cole. Nobody...
Nevertheless, it is not personal merit which will probably earn Brooke a ticket to Washington. Paradoxically, his appeal is based upon the two elements which should be against him--his minority party affiliations and his color--and he makes the most of both opportunities. In his recently published book The Challenge of Change, he warns against the dangerous trend towards a one-party system. As attorney general and a former chairman of the crime commission, Brooke can attest authoritatively to what he calls "the climate of corruption springing from one-party government." He also harps on Democratic complacency, committee control...