Word: earning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because people are not saints, they often do as little as possible to get by. Not all of them, but enough to cripple the system. Yes, they can earn more rubles by producing more goods. But what good are more rubles when there's so little worth buying...
...Pressure? What pressure," Yaz asked Sunday when asked about the "rigors" of being a major league baseball player. "Pressure is what faces millions and millions of fathers and mothers trying to earn a living every day to support a family to give it comfort, devotion and love. That's what pressure really...
Hazelwood is a free man today, at least until his trial, now scheduled to begin in October. He spends much of his time lobster fishing in Huntington Bay with a friend in order to earn money. The work is filthy, but it helps keep Hazelwood's mind off his new role as America's Environmental Enemy No. 1. It will probably be 1990 before Exxon and the National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations...
...days of trading on his guest list have ended, and he has gone underground. Those who once dined at his table are wondering out loud about the curious 8-ft.-long two-way mirror in his house, and the young men, and what exactly Craig Spence did to earn all the money he was throwing around. They wonder only now that the party is over...
...Peng. Unusually cosmopolitan for a Chinese leader, Jiang speaks Russian and English and reads several other languages. He advanced steadily in the machine and electronics industries until the Cultural Revolution temporarily derailed his career. Rehabilitated, he used his back-room skills in carrying out post-Mao economic policy to earn him election in 1982 to the Central Committee...