Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale's foundation-financed program will allow students to take five years to earn bachelors' degrees and to spend one of these "living and working" in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. During this year they are considered to be enrolled in the college and are therefore exempt from the draft...
...deliveries above quotas. Also announced was a $77 billion investment in agriculture by 1970 -most of it to be paid by the government. On the industrial front, Kosygin called for more consumer goods, announced that the next Five Year Plan would provide higher wages for factory workers, who currently earn an average $120 a month. It was the first indication of a break in the long wage freeze imposed by Khrushchev...
...from riverbeds to swamps. The surface is often black-cotton soil that turns to treacle at the first trace of rain. A worse, all-weather hazard comes in the form of mud or rock walls dumped across roads by enterprising tribesmen, who live all year on the fees they earn for removing them. "In Kenya," says one old African hand, "Harambee is a national motto. It means 'Let's all push together.' The trouble is that half the blighters are pushing the car while the other half are pushing up the price...
...economy of Birmingham, Alabama, The Magic City, depends largely on the throbbing steel mills which ring its borders. While whites may hold any job and earn at any wage level, Negroes in the city are caught in a viscious circle of poverty; discriminatory employment practices prevent them from rising to even the most basic managerial positions. Not only does such discrimination strangle the economy of the Negro community, but it causes imbalance in education and housing and drives many of the community's more talented members away in search of better jobs...
...Marine Corps regular, has been in Viet Nam for 10½ months as adviser to a Vietnamese marine batallion. He has no command capacity whatever. All he can do os offer suggestions when and if they are solicited by his Vietnamese "counterpart." To perform effectively, the adviser must earn the trust and friendship of his Vietnamese opposite number- a process that often takes weeks, and sometimes is never achieved. Whenever an American adviser tries to force his views on a Vietnamese commander, he is in for trouble. Thus one overzealous adviser was told by a Vietnamese commander who never spoke...