Word: earned
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...department's newest track allows concentrators to earn cumlaude status--though not magna or summa degrees--for getting honors-level grades in all the required courses and taking an extra seminar or small group course taught by a departmental faculty member in lieu of writing a thesis...
...though the fins are being fed to starving children. They're used in Asia for shark-fin soup, a delicacy that fetches up to $150 a bowl. The market for shark fins is incredibly profitable; U.S. fishermen earn as much as $25 per lb. for fins, compared with 50[cents] per lb. for shark meat. The trade has grown dramatically since commerce with China began expanding in the 1980s: some 125 nations are now involved...
...billion and is rapidly closing in on the nation's biggest stock fund, Fidelity Magellan ($58 billion), which is not an index fund. Stock-index mutual funds are only a small part of the story, though. Pension-fund managers have been indexing for two decades to ensure that they earn a market rate of return. They have some $600 billion to $700 billion tied...
Brevity is so highly prized that one good aphorism can earn its coiner immortality. Yet there is one form of brevity that gets no respect at all: the sound bite...
...whisper number is, simply, the most up-to-the-minute Wall Street estimate of what a company will earn in a given quarter. The name derives from the air of secrecy surrounding it. No one puts the number in writing; few admit to even speaking it. Yet there are probably whisper numbers for up to 200 stocks each quarter. They tend to be technology stocks and other hot names such as Nike or Starbucks, where robust earnings are critical to supporting the stock price. Intel seems to have a whisper number in most quarters. There's been one for Microsoft...