Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson can pull off the victory over the fifth-ranked Cardinal, it would go down as one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history. It would also earn Ivy League women's basketball the same respect the men received when 13th-seeded Princeton stunned UCLA--and the nation--two years ago in the first round of the NCAA Tournament...
...city of Cambridge: the United States is a capitalist country. In a capitalist system the basic questions of economics are answered, for the most part, by the market. These questions are what, how and for whom to produce goods and services. Capitalism guarantees that all stores, to earn a profit, must meet the demand of some consumers. However, each store will not necessarily sell a good or service that everyone in the community demands...
...grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill it--as if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment it was old enough to earn money, U.S. television has been squandering the country's greatest natural resource: the young audience...
...Freestyle will be deciding events and the prospects for a positive outcome look good. The Crimson will be stacking these events with multiple swimmers in order to reduce the possibility that Princeton will be able to score high points. At Easterns, the top 16 places earn points toward the team's final score, so Harvard will want to fill as many of those spots as possible...
...addition, the 400 Individual Medley looks really strong with defending champions junior Greg Wriede, Cadman and freshman Mike Groves competing. Perhaps most important, though, will be the final relays. The relays earn double the amount of points that individual events earn. As a result, the relays can make or break a meet--fortunately, Harvard's relays are expected to do well this year...