Word: make
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeff, who quit the graduate program in international affairs at American University to help out Grandma's Cookies, adds, "I'd like to make enough to be comfortable but I can't work for a boss at the State Department." David, who has participated in every step of creating Grandma's from baking to marketing, also says, "I feel like a part of it; I'm not just working to make someone else money. We have to work hard up in Vermont, but it's not an assembly line...
...scent of the store has grown sour, nauseous. You try to hold your breath while heading for the door because otherwise you are going to die, and dropped-dead on the floor you will not make a cosmetically fetching corpse. But you stop first and buy a package of mints, half-believing that your exhalation of sweet, clear breath will be sufficient to extinguish the world, or at least Brattle Street...
...leads this attack in a painfully misdirected way. There's no reason why the incentives for savings must come from a regressive consumption tax. As long as federal regulations limit banks' interest rates on savings accounts to 5.75% while inflation runs well over double that rate, it will make no sense for consumers to save large parts of their incomes. If the government wants Americans to save money, it must eliminate these interest ceilings and permit banks to pay a fair price for their savings...
Several Council members objected to that plan, saying it will make faculty hired under these conditions feel as though the were not hired on the merits of their academic qualifications...
Rosovsky will use his influence to accelerate recruitment by focusing on departments where minority and women tenured faculty are least represented and by meeting routinely with the tenure search committees in these departments to make sure they consider all women and minorities qualified for available tenured posts...