Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved on to the University of Texas, where he studied for a Ph.D. in biophysics. Five years later, at 29, John Paul Stapp, Ph.D., finally entered the University of Minnesota Medical School. In addition to studying, he taught and worked as a research assistant. Somehow, he managed to earn the degree he wanted most: Doctor of Medicine...
Marion appreciates the talents of her lawyers, whose guidance has helped her earn an estimated annual net income of $400,000 a year from real estate. But they also respect her business instincts. Says Bautzer: "She has a good sense of smell about a piece of land...
Foreign-owned public utilities in Latin America are a chosen prey of nationalizers and a favorite target of Communists. For their troubles most of them earn slim profits. Returns average only 3% a year on investment, compared to 9% for manufacturers and about 20% for oil producers. But now Mexico has launched a new policy to give utilities a break. Reversing the long anti-utility trend, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation...
...says Sir Winston Churchill, is the expression of "the heart's desire . . . of the vast majority of all the peoples . . . to earn their daily bread in peace." The U.N.'s moral power derives from its ability to mobilize a great intangible: world public opinion. It was a sense of this moral power that led the Belgians to improve conditions in their trust territory of Ruanda Urundi-before the U.N. Trusteeship Council sent out an inspection team. The British and French pulled their troops out of Syria and Lebanon in 1946 because, as civilized nations, they were unwilling...
...most truckers held firm, while Beck's tough lieutenant Frank Brewster and a truckers' delegation hammered out 63 contracts, one by one. Last week they were all signed. The settlement: long-line drivers, who now earn an average $2.14, won 8? an hour more this year, 8? more next year, and 7? in 1957; to an average $2 scale, local drivers added 10? an hour this year,10? next year, 9? in 1957. For pensions the truckers agreed to contribute $8.65 monthly...