Word: earning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last year Riccardo earned $343,339. In 1979, his first full year at Chrysler, lacocca was supposed to earn $360,000, on top of a $1.5 million bonus, paid over 1979 and 1980, for joining the company...
...food allowance provided for 17,000 Vietnamese refugees in the colony who are unemployed but capable of working. Of the 8,200 refugees who have found work in Hong Kong's factories, many are paid $4.20 for an eight-hour day, or about half of what local employees earn...
...often claimed that Prospero is omnipotent, but he is not. He can do certain things when he wears his magician's robe, but other things depend on the willingness of his superhuman servant Ariel, who hopes to store up enough brownie points to earn freedom from his master. The very name Ariel suggests the "airy spirit" Shakespeare described him to be, though the name is actually a Hebrew one found in the Old Testament, one of whose meanings apparently was 'hearth...
...ring and his reflexes in a benefit performance last year, El Cordobés decided to retire from retirement. Last week's fight at Benidorm, in which he was awarded five ears and a tail, will be followed by 60 more in Spain and Latin America; he may earn $4 million but, more important, he can relive those moments of truth...
...Marlow, Okla., and when police were trying to catch a dealer, they just dipped into their own pockets to make the buy. Like everything else, the price of grass is growing. It is $30 an ounce these days, and that is a lot of petty cash for officers who earn $636 a month. Their solution: a fund-raising drive to provide a $1,500 Special Police Fund from which to buy narcotics and pay informants. So far businesses, churches and citizens of Marlow have chipped in $1,000. Last week, using some of their new cash, police paid...