Word: earned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What each team must do for Harvard to earn a share of the Ivy League championship...
...this scenario follows, Harvard would tie for the Ivy title with Penn, Princeton and Cornell. Dartmouth would earn a share of the title if it beats either Columbia or Brown. Columbia would earn a share of the title if it beats Brown...
...underpinning it are as old as the border itself. At Ernest Hurt's ranch just east of the Continental Divide and an easy horse ride to the Antelope Wells border post, Carlos Chavez Perez, 46, works as a cowboy for $450 a month, about six times what he could earn at home in Chihuahua. Like the Palomas dentist or the assembly-line maquiladora worker in Ciudad Juarez, Chavez eats a lot better doing the gringo's chores than he would doing...
...Salaam Bombay!, ten-year-old Krishna (Shafiq Syed) has no hope higher than survival. His mother has thrown him out, and he must earn 500 rupees in the churning Bombay slums. Is this a death sentence? No, it is a challenge for the resourceful Krishna. Does the film curtsy to liberal pieties? No, it sees the city as a school for life -- life as it is for millions of Asian children. His neighbors may be prostitutes and pushers, but they are neither fiends nor Artful Dodgers; they are individuals come to bracing anecdotal life. And Bombay may not be paradise...
...cater to women scattered across the farm belt, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Ind., lets students earn degrees through independent study, conferring with professors by phone and mail. The program accounts for more than half the college's 950 students. Many of the women are retooling for off-the-farm careers to supplement their family income. For Teresa Miller, 40, who is working toward a degree in social work, studying on campus would have meant commuting 100 miles a day. "This way," she says, "I can pick up the kids, do errands on the farm...