Word: earned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always been my ambitiion to play professional hockey and hopefully my NCAA playoff performance will earn me an opportunity with a pro team," said Krayer, who lost his remaining collegiate eligibility...
Rose will almost surely never earn a living in baseball again, but he is likely to continue to make a living off baseball by merchandising his relics. In 1985, the year he broke Cobb's record, he arranged to collect royalties on T shirts, beer mugs, pennants and plastic figurines of himself. On the lucrative baseball-card show circuit, where one show promoter has clocked him signing his short name 600 times an hour, Rose earns as much as $20,000 an appearance. He was broke or unsentimental enough to sell the bat from his record 4,192nd...
...have any impact on their outcome. How refreshing, then, to hear of a case, however small, in which one of us -- specifically, my pal Joey -- gets to be judge and jury. This is the story of Joey's revenge. It could save you a few bucks, or perhaps even earn you a first-class upgrade...
...cash and care paid off. The high school graduation rate has risen from 73.4% to 77.5%, and the percentage of students going on to Arkansas colleges, just 38.7% in 1982, has grown to 44.5%. All this has helped Clinton, 42, a boyish-looking Rhodes scholar with presidential ambitions, earn a national reputation as a wizard of school reform. "I feel real good about where we have come in the past 6 1/2 years," says the Governor...
Some summer jobs are just a way to earn money. But for 23 college students who are willing to brave the heat of New York City, it's also a chance to learn firsthand how we produce our magazines. Eighteen of our interns have spent the summer at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE and other publications. Here at TIME, five labor right alongside their professional counterparts in different departments. Last month, as a reporter-researcher in the Nation section, Stanford senior Frank Quaratiello interviewed a survivor of the United Airlines DC-10 crash in Sioux City, Iowa, and is writing the Milestones...