Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That game, a 3-0 win for Harvard, turned out to be perhaps the Crimson's best of the weekend. Sophomore pitcher Kathleen Brown went the distance for the shutout, and Harvard knocked home three runs in the sixth inning to earn another shot at Cornell...
...week, everybody made a grab for the glory. Bill Clinton called the deal "a balanced budget with balanced values." Senate majority leader Trent Lott, with House Speaker Newt Gingrich behind him, exulted that "Washington must learn to make do with less, while Americans will keep more of what they earn...
Harvard started the day off right winning two of the three doubles matches to earn the valuable doubles point...
...class war. Two weeks ago, the AFL-CIO launched a Website www.paywatch.org detailing CEO pay packages, producing an instant cyberjam among those trying to log on to feed their fury. There are now a dozen Websites devoted to executive pay. "It takes thousands, literally thousands of years to earn what your CEO takes home in a single year," fumes Richard Trumka, secretary...
...populists? The Czarina enthusiastically egged on his autocratic posturing, and when her grandmother, Britain's Queen Victoria, wrote tactfully to suggest that a queen must work hard to win the love of her subjects, she replied, "You are mistaken, my dear grandmama...Here we do not need to earn the love of the people. The Russian people revere their Czars as divine beings, from whom all charity and fortune derive...