Word: earning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time specialists in urban fields. They dispense information about arcane money management methods, political techniques, trends to expect in the future and, above all, how to get by in a period of stagnant federal and state aid. One proposed device: juggle whatever cash is on hand adroitly enough to earn maximum interest on it. The mayors respond like pre-med students before final exams, asking the same basic questions and getting writer's cramp taking notes. When Crozier misplaces his pad he scribbles away on a series of napkins which he then stuffs in his pocket...
...land in a large, abandoned shopping mall outside Pittsburgh and decide to stay there. Much of the film's remaining time is spent mowing down these jerky, green zombies, running them over, blasting their heads off, bashing them in, etc. It's fun. It's also gory enough to earn the film an X rating...
...solve our problems. These include a reasonable degree of political stability and international financial aid for the next two years, beginning without delay. The reason I am optimistic is that Turkey has a vast number of well-trained and well-educated people. We have unexploited mineral resources. We can earn more from tourism than from exports. And we can export construction and engineering services to regional countries. But we are in a very volatile situation. The opposition has chosen this particular period to stir up a government crisis, which will hamper our opportunity to restore our economy with foreign...
...glamour of piloting attracts many of the students, who receive flight instruction (at a minimum of $32 per hour) in the school's fleet of 63 general aircraft. But many, 300 this year, also earn their A & P after completing the five-trimester program in airframes and power plants...
...fact that we've been sold a bill of goods time and time again and are a littie reluctant to give up what we have worked hard to earn does not make us besotted wastrels...