Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Epps III and the Committee on Undergraduate Research Projects, which at one point decided to scuttle the poll, had concerns about exacerbating racial divisions--concerns which seem secondary to promoting reasonable and honest discussion. The survey was ultimately conducted through The Crimson. If the administration is going to earn a better grade than the "B-" it received from students with regard to its efforts in the realm of race relations, then it will have to provide student groups with more flexibility to discuss racial issues...
Titanic has averted disaster at the box office, but at least one of Hollywood's big holiday pictures has rammed a major iceberg: KEVIN COSTNER'S apocalyptic drama The Postman. The $80 million epic, which spent only one week among the 10 top-grossing films, will struggle to earn $20 million at the domestic box office. Though it could do better internationally, the film seems likely to rank as one of this market's costliest flops ever. It caps a miserable year for its studio, Warner Bros., which, according to Variety, dropped from second to fourth in market share...
...Force brass, eager to please the boss, bought the 1,750-lb. English-manufactured Slingsby T-3 and made it mandatory for all cadets to fly the craft if they want to earn their wings. It is a tiny plane, half the length and one-tenth the weight of the F-16, the Air Force's smallest fighter. But its standard, 160-hp engine was not powerful enough to do spins and loops in the thin Rocky Mountain air over the mile-high academy. So a 7.7-liter, 260-hp engine was crammed into the 25-ft.-long plastic fuselage...
Many are offshoots of Optima, the company's first credit card. (The venerable green and gold cards are not credit cards that can carry over a balance but charge cards that require payment-in-full each month.) Want to earn discounts on golf lessons or a new set of clubs, for example? The American Express Golf Card, an Optima card issued with Callaway Golf, was designed for that. Or how about dollars off hotel rooms or a chance to rack up frequent-flyer miles? Among other programs, American Express offers Hilton Optima and Delta AirLines Skymiles cards...
...anybody else attempted murder and assault in front of witnesses, chances are he would be sitting in a prison cell, not holding a press conference about how he was unfairly treated. Sprewell may have lost his right to earn millions and play in the NBA, but he should be thankful he's not in jail. SYLVIA SUNG Chicago...