Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...produces a smaller percentage of female science majors than the national average, that conclusion probably isn't quite accurate. Rather, any such deficiency is most likely due to the fact that Harvard enrolls a smaller percentage of women overall than do most comparable institutions. At a time when women earn 54 percent of baccalaureate degrees nationwide, Harvard still enrolls only about 46 percent women, and this skews the proportions of women concentrators in all fields...
Some undergraduates make five dollars by playing computer games for half an hour. Others earn 20 dollars by sitting in a room alone. And then there are those who earn the princely sum of 50 dollars for letting researchers scan an image of their brain...
...visitor in the streets feels no tangible fear or frenzy, no outward anxiety that attack is imminent. Baghdad's new poor are worrying as always about their daily bread. A lucky man might earn 4,000 dinars a month, the price of a kilo of meat. Families get by on soup and rice, for lunch and dinner. Women in the streets peddle rings and bracelets to help pay rent; children beg everywhere, offering a few pathetic sticks of incense or just a sad look on their haggard faces. Middle-class families long ago sold off their television sets, rugs...
...what you really own is common stock in a company that invests in bonds. That stock goes up and down along with the value of the company's assets, which in this case are mostly bonds but sometimes include exotic derivative securities. Clearly, investors seeking to preserve capital and earn a fixed-income stream for a set period of time have no business flirting with such a beast. They should go for individual bonds. Yet bond funds are routinely marketed and accepted as apt substitutes...
...players hope that a strong showing--along with helping their rank--might help earn them the respect and support their performance seems to warrant...