Word: earned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...older brother Jeffrey started Sock It to Me five years ago to earn a Boy Scout badge. Nurse Karin Tackett, a next-door neighbor and friend of the Burris family, gave him the idea: homeless people are hard on socks; for hygienic and health reasons, they are always in need of new pairs. If Jeffrey would collect the socks, Tackett would have the Georgia Nurses Foundation, which treats the homeless, distribute the socks at shelters in nearby Atlanta and Athens. Helped by Jessica and parents Herb and Patty Burris, Jeffrey got his badge. But Jessica decided the campaign had merit...
...confidence wavers for just that one instant though, before the same Gina that fought for the right to earn a Harvard degree re-emerges...
...want to die and settles for merely damaging Jeff and stowing her safely in the emergency facilities of his local hospital. As long as she remains alive, he's got nothing to worry about. Unfortunately, the hospital fees will cost a bundle, and so Scud hits the streets to earn money the only way he knows how--by hiring himself out as an assassin...
Contrary to Morgan's assertion, Cardinal Health took every reasonable step to avoid the strike with Teamsters Local 42. The company even offered on three separate occasions to extend the contract, so that employees could continue to work and earn a paycheck while the negotiations continued. These are hardly the actions of a company determined to, in Morgan's words, "break the union." The union refused to consider these offers and chose to go out on strike...
...pits Hispanic parents against African-American ones. The disputes like East Palo Alto's arise in part from frustration over how to spend the dwindling pot of cash in low-income districts. But they also reflect a jostling for power, as blacks who labored hard to earn a place in central offices, on school boards and in classrooms confront a Latino population eager to grab a share of these positions...