Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are nearly 10,000 mass, medium-size and small magazines in America. All of them are competing for attention in the open marketplace. Under normal circumstances each year, some are born, a few flourish, most scrape by and some die. This is as it should be. No magazine can rightfully ask for a handout or a federal grant. But both mass and specialty magazines can ask to be spared from radical changes in the rules of economic engagement, from cost increases that demolish all previous cost equations. It requires little imagination to predict what would happen to the hundreds...
...Association of Railroad Passengers has been unable to interest any governmental unit in a proposal to scrape up $17.4 million to improve passenger service to the city's suburbs. Yet the Federal Government is spending $53.5 million to build slightly more than a mile of road just south of the city. The Government recently laid out $110 million to open a new six-lane segment of Interstate 95, which parallels an existing four-lane highway between Washington and Baltimore...
...precious few hours of sleep. "Leaving that early won't be helpful," said Gambril in an example of classic understatement, Co-captain Paul Horvitz could only say "Zzzzzzzz....", while his teammates's reactions varied from apathy to outright anger. Perhaps next year the Athletic Department bureaucracy can scrape up enough money for an overnight, but the team's chances against Yale this year will not be helped by this faux...
...Cronin's as a first step in a projected drive to organize waitresses at other Square restaurants. Waiting on tables is all too often considered as a demeaning job reserved for women. The low salaries ensure that waitresses must--in the words of waitress organizer Patricia Welch--"bow, scrape and kiss...
Owsley County in eastern Kentucky is one of the nation's poorest. Its 5,023 people scrape by on a per capita income of $500 a year, mostly from tobacco or moonshining. Unemployment runs at 24%. No trains or buses stop in Booneville, the county seat, and the people are largely left alone in their poverty. Then, in November, Frank Ashley of the Louisville Courier-Journal came to town...