Word: earned
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...their health care benefits, the University will save $200,000 out of a benefits budget of $132 million. This is a very small savings. Yet the $700 extra that each worker will have to pay each year is a very large amount when compared to what these people earn and can afford. Certainly Harvard, which is worth billions of dollars, can afford to treat its workers more equitably. I understand that faculty get 100 percent health coverage...
...Russian scientists of all stripes, the hard times began the moment the old empire crumbled. Once the pampered elite of Soviet society, chemists, physicists and other highly trained researchers currently earn as little as $100 a month. According to Lev Mukhin, a science and technology counselor in the Russian embassy in Washington, most scientists today have to hold two or three jobs to make ends meet. Just last month the head of one of Russia's prestigious nuclear-research centers wrote a letter complaining about his inability to get his projects financed or his workers paid, and then he shot...
...fundamental question that so many Harvard students fail to adequately address, even as they tackle the most difficult intellectual and social issues of our times. It's easy to assume the answer lies entirely with the merits of success. It's wonderful to achieve, to be recognized and to earn the respect of our peers and our mentors. Additionally, there are those of us whose goals, chosen entirely for reasons of self-satisfaction, are spectacular enough that they can't help but garner recognition when achieved...
...assume that making money and understanding life's many emotional and moral facets are mutually exclusive. Let us not look down on those who value financial security. An individual's desire to earn a steady income in and of itself is not a vice. It is how one balances this desire while maintaining time for "play" which is a far more acceptable criterion for judgement. Perhaps we should give our fellow students a greater benefit of the doubt, assuming they too will find ways to utilize themselves and remain true to themselves in the world of briefs, numbers and trading...
Here's another way to take a holiday vacation on the cheap: Christmas albums. This year's crop of holiday-themed CDs includes musical excursions to Africa, Ireland and Latin America; they won't earn you frequent-flyer miles, but you won't have to deal with that knee-crushing idiot who keeps his seat back for the entire six-hour flight to Buenos Aires. World Christmas (Metro Blue) features artists from a number of time zones, including Cape Verdean vocalist Cesaria Evora. There's also a Celtic Christmas II (Windham Hill); A Brasilian Christmas (Astor Place); and Festival...