Word: earn
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...must ask not to be referred to as a Hispanic American. I have lived in this great country for almost 15 years and have worked hard to earn the privilege of being an American. I will forever be proud of my heritage and rightfully so. However, that was yesterday; today I have chosen a new heritage for my children and theirs...
Belisle describes himself as a "burnt out" case. The condition is familiar to child-abuse workers, whose divorce rate is above the national average. They suffer a notably high proportion of nervous breakdowns. After a few years on the job, many leave the service to earn a living in totally different fields in order to escape the tension and responsibility. Belisle, at least, still works for the protective service. But he does not go out on cases. He sits at the phone in the screening room. Phone work, screening incoming reports on child abuse, is at least one remove from...
...escape, the life histories of the other foreigners whose follies landed them in Sagmalcilar. Slapped with a sentence of four years and two months for possession (the prosecutor wanted life for the two kilos of hashish), Billy initially tries to play it cool, avoiding any scheme that might earn him yet another savage beating or a longer jail term. A primal fear now governs his actions and he carefully toes the line...
...essence the plan will make a lot of students poorer and a lot of parents richer over a transitional period of about 40 or 50 years," Olson said yesterday. He added that the plan could serve as a "disincentive" for students to earn higher incomes and thus pay back more of the loan each year...
...have to be earn careful about what you do to kids," Curran, a pioneer in the field of children's rights in medical research, said yesterday. Though he fears the government could interpret the rules too stringently, Curran still thinks they are reasonable. "It could have been much worse, as there were some radical proposals made which would have stopped most research," he added...