Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martina Hingis is living up to her namesake (Navratilova, that is). When the 16-year-old Swiss miss beat Mary Pierce to win the Australian Open, she became the youngest female to earn a Grand Slam title in 110 years. Hingis also claimed the doubles crown. "Next time I have to play mixed doubles so I can win that too," she told the crowd...
...earn $20 a month. In December the price of bread jumped 23%, and you spend a third of your salary on the daily loaf. The bank where you saved the proceeds of your ingenuity and hard work for the past seven years closed its doors eight months ago. You once had a car, but it was stolen. Inflation is devaluing the little cash you have at the annual rate of 310%. What do you do? You take to the streets and jump up and down to the roaring chant of "Anyone who doesn't jump...
...unreconstructed communists who still balk at basic reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says Nikolai Ivanov, an airport border-control officer, between bounces. "Any other reason is irrelevant." Says Kiril Korchev, a road laborer: "The communists tricked us. But we're going to stop them. The people are no longer afraid...
...Mexico the company's stitchers earn $20 to $40 a week, compared with about $5 an hour for their Los Angeles counterparts, who are overwhelmingly Latino immigrants. The difference shaves up to $2 off the cost of each pair of jeans and explains, in part, why U.S. apparel jobs have dropped 43% since...
...profits come from basic entrance fees, which can run as high as a few hundred dollars, with extra registration fees charged for each optional event, such as modeling or talent. Organizers also sell pageant jewelry and publish journals that earn money through advertising. And before the parents are done, they have usually shelled out hundreds more for costumes (in the better pageants they must be handmade, not off the rack), makeup, voice or dance lessons, pageant consultants and travel...