Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Businessmen usually obey the guidelines because they know that the FTC is tough to beat once it does go to court. The commission recently persuaded scores of sellers and advertisers to stop claiming falsely that products have been made by blind persons, exaggerating the profits that small investors can earn in Laundromat businesses, and enticing children to become salesmen by deceptive offers of "free" merchandise. Says Dixon: "I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's attitude of 'Come, let us reason together...
...fair to call a man a "tom" because he is, say, a sixty-year-old Negro who is obliged to earn a living in Alabama? Many Negro men and women, born too early in the South, are in such a position. No Northerner, white or black, has the right to level such an epithet at these people, or even to give it ambiguous approval, after returning to his own state. Moreover, it is doubtful that an Alabama Negro of twenty has the right to level it at one of sixty-five...
...musicals must run for almost a season before they begin to earn a profit. Producers try to prevent great losses by making large advance ticket sales, usually through the drawing power of a big name star. But occasionally a show will collapse without even beginning a run. A recent Broadway disaster was the musical Kelly, which opened and closed last January and cost its backers over $650,000. Most Broadway producers now search for "first-class" musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof and Luv, which blend small doses of serious concern with large amounts of enjoyable humor and song...
...thirteen students in the Association who are working abroad have found nine jobs in Boston for foreign members. The jobs are for the most part offered by banks and insurance companies, but include two positions with the Boston Re-development Authority. The foreign students will earn $70-$80 a week...
...hour guidance. Class sizes range from 20 down to individual tutoring. Reading clinics never have more than five students. The concentrated instruction is confined to basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, relies on oral explanations, uses no standard texts. The school's accent is on the positive: boys earn merits, never demerits, are rewarded progressively with a school jacket, pins for the jacket, a school sweater...