Word: stipend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country called Miranda; his exquisitely developed sense of hypocrisy binds him close to his Parisian friends and even closer to Miss Seyrig, a friend's wife with whom he is indulging a perfunctory passion. With his companions Cassel and Frankeur, he is also earning a tidy stipend on the side by smuggling cocaine in his inviolate diplomatic briefcase. Their only concern, besides the ambassadors incessant fear of revolutionaries, is "a gang in Marseille," which is beginning to resent the amateur trafficking. In one of the movie's best scenes, gang members break in while all are (of course...
...fellows were disappointing since they participated so little in the Institute's activities. Only a few gave student seminars. In the Institute fellow program there are no written prerequisites to being a fellow other than that the fellow live in Cambridge. In other words, a fellow can receive a stipend of as much as $1250 a month without being required to participate at all in the Institute's programs. May explained the situation, "We can't pose conditions on our fellowships for tax reasons. The most we can do is ask them to stay in Cambridge...
...course-there was a seven-month wait last time, after the death of John Masefield in 1967. But the British press is already kicking names around. Most of the names don't seem to be overjoyed at the thought of the honor, which carries a yearly stipend of $182, plus $70 "in lieu of a butt of sack." Says Poet Stephen Spender, 63: "I do not want to do anything that would make me more hated by other writers than I already am." However, he had a helpful suggestion: "What we really want from a poet laureate is high...
When a proficient young athlete has completed school, he gets a Kaderstelle (cadre position), which frees him, one way or another, from work. He may, for example, enroll at a university and draw a stipend without doing any studying, or he may get a sham job in a factory that he will visit only to pick up his wages. He thus can remain attached to his sports club and concentrate on his specialty while at the same time leading an elitist life in the supposedly classless society. He can get any food he wants in any quantity, even the fresh...
...been widespread confusion regarding the Union's position on the need for a criterion of equity on the distribution of University aid funds. The Union is naturally concerned about questions of equity, but it does not believe that taking expected salary income away from teaching fellows (the tuition stipend) constitutes an acceptable application of this criterion...