Word: earned
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...could understand--though not share--the Administration's anxiousness to receive antipoverty funds if Harvard stood to gain more than a few thousand dollars. But the Act specifies that only students whose parents earn under $3000 a year qualify for U.S. aid. Although the Student Employment Office dislikes to release figures on family income, it seems unlikely that more than a handful of Harvard students come from families this poor...
During its brief life, the HCUA has become known primarily for its ineffectiveness. We have little hope that its twin successors will earn a better reputation. The problem in the end is not the HCUA's organization, but rather the University's indifference to student councils of any description. Unless the Administration attitude changes--and a change in the near future seems unlikely--there is little point in worrying about the "best" way to be ignored...
When he is able to work, DeWitt Easter, 59, is a skilled plasterer who can earn $175 a week in Washington, D.C. But Easter is seldom out of jail and sober. An alcoholic whose father was an alcoholic, he has been arrested 70 times for public intoxication-a "crime" for which Washington arrests 44,000 people a year. While such police work tidies up the streets, the fact that 70% of the arrests involve repeaters like Easter suggests that Washington's anti-drunk laws are more punitive than preventive. And it is just this premise that has spurred some...
...lower executive echelons, Du Pont also offers fairly handsome salaries, bonuses, and such benefits as the company-run country club for all employees (highest fee: $125 a year). By the time he is 40, the rising Du Pont executive may earn well over $25,000, enough to move to the farther-out suburbs, where the pond in the backyard is preferred to the swimming pool. To those at home base, in fact, Du Pont is more than a place of work; it is a way of life in the most thoroughgoing company town in the U.S. The Du Ponts...
...learn because we have an interest in understanding: we notice because our vision fulfills a need in our lives. In the extreme case Mr. Welch poses, we engage in inquiry to acquaint ourselves with enough technical knowledge to enable us to earn a living, build a bridge, or attain whatever finite goal we posit. The answers we obtain have meaning only in terms of the purposes behind the questions we ask; there is no realm of "truth in itself," towards which it is the duty of the student to yearn in a pointless idealism...