Word: save
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to the United States ten years ago working at a ski lodge as a cook ("I used to go to work in true snow storm, man, at 35 below for $1.50 an hour and me from Jamaica? I was ready to go home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn't now know whether he'll go back home. The Silver Slipper is as much a second start for Leonard Matthews as Grandma's is for Sid Gerstenblatt; but Leonard has weaned his child...
Isham now works as a student representative to Save the Children, which promotes nutritional information, agricultural training and research, education, physical improvements and legal help for children in 19 countries throughout the world. Save the Children now sends 82 per cent of its budget directly to charitable causes...
...year of work with Phillips Brooks House (PBH) and two years with Save the Children helped to prepare Isham for his responsibilities, he says. Isham served on the PBH prisons committee, where he worked to rehabilitate a 65-year old man who had spent 40 years in prison...
...North House sophomore says he wants to use his time at Harvard to publicize and raise money for Save the Children from local college and high school students...
...more equitable strategy for stimulating productivity lies in adjusting the progressive income tax to create incentives for savings. Instead of simply taxing income, the Federal government could tax income minus savings in a way that equalizes the tax burdens upon the rich and poor. With these incentives, Americans would certainly save more, banks and business would invest more, and ensuing gains in productivity would steadily combat inflation...