Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whistler, B.C., on Jan. 31. Though journalists saw this as a Clintonesque and laughable defense, the Canadian Olympic Association filed an appeal on Rebagliati's behalf. And the word among snowboarding's tight brotherhood in Nagano was that no one was going to accept any prizes they didn't earn if the giant-slalom medals were redistributed...
...position to question Thernstrom's statistical measures on the economic and educational advancement of blacks, the progress of black Americans is something I can gauge only by my own experiences. I sit here, a student at Harvard, the product of two parents who have yet to earn college degrees. It is likely that the job offers I might receive as a Harvard graduate will have starting salaries well over the combined income of my mother and father, who together supported a family of five. From this perspective, Thernstrom's argument appears to be legitimate: in terms of economic and educational...
...ITA/Rolex National Indoor Tennis Championships is one of those events where you have to earn your way into the draw by being one of the finalists in a regional tournament...
...investment would allow workers themselves to provide for their retirements. According to a recent Heritage Foundation study, a 30-years-old, average- income family with dual wages can expect 1.2 percent per annum in gains from Social Security. An identical family that invests in a conservative mutual fund would earn as much as 5 percent annually. Over a lifetime of working, the difference between government and private retirement planning amounts...
AUSTRALIA "There has been quite a tradition of American feminists tolerating in their elected allies behaviour that would in other circumstances earn condemnation and even ostracism." --Anne Summers, Sydney Morning Herald...