Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubt about it, there is substance to Reich's piece. If we cannot find the story of the poor man here, working 14-hour days to earn a starving wage for his children, then it is because Reich is no poor man. In fact, the tension in Reich's life and in the Times piece is drawn between the joys of work and the joys of family. He suffers from an overbundance; his cup runneth over. For many Harvard students, Reich's story is familiar. We worry about making the right choices in a sea of opportunity...
...Commerce Department papers clearly indicate that many corporate contributors expected their money to earn them special consideration when seats were being handed out on the Secretary's plane. In a letter addressed to Deputy Assistant Commerce Secretary Jude Kearney, C. Payne Lucas, a development-organization executive, suggests that he should be added to a mission headed for South Africa in 1993 because he contributed $2,000 to the election campaigns of both Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela. In another, Philip Verveer, a politically savvy Washington attorney, recommends a place on a 1994 mission to India for William Ginsberg...
Working for Harvard also means that officers get to earn extra money working party details such as the Adams House Masquerade...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Our government sanctions the killing of 30 million babies and spends the majority of time figuring out how to take our property and give it to someone who didn't earn it. That is socialism...
...name game may earn this race some added attention--the challenger's husband is the John Doggett who gave a memorable defense of Clarence Thomas in 1991. But so has the presence of G.O.P. heavyweights like Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Edwin Meese, who have campaigned for Teresa Doggett. Their presence may not help in a district that is one-third African American and Latino, but Doggett is not an average Republican: if she wins, she could be the only black Republican woman in Congress...