Word: earned
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Both players agree that law school will always be there if things don’t work out for Williams, but if they do, the result could be lucrative. While first-year attorneys earn an average of $125,000, an NFL fifth-round draft pick’s first-year salary averages...
...they get larger, to make sure that as they get larger they get more boring. For compensation, one way to mitigate risk is to defer some chunk of compensation so that it's only success over time that you get paid for. Having a compensation czar dictate who should earn what is probably not a great solution...
Stock-market analysts, who are usually wildly bullish on far-off earnings projections, seem to have the same tentative take on the post-stimulus economy. According to Thomson Reuters, analysts believe that on average, companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 will earn 22% more in 2011 than they will next year. That's a larger-than-average jump for corporate profits. But it will be down from the 25% jump analysts are expecting for 2010, when the stimulus money will still be pumping into the economy. And it is far below other rebounds. In 2003, for instance, corporate profits...
...spend two weekends at the top of the box office. None of the other repeaters - Paul Blart: Mall Cop in January, Madea Goes to Jail in February and, over the big summer season, Night at the Museum 2, The Hangover, Transformers 2 and Final Destination 4 - are likely to earn a slot on the newly expanded, 10-title list of Oscar nominations for Best Picture. Nor did any of them except The Hangover earn money-quote lines from the critical establishment. But they underline the importance of comedies and action films to the one line Hollywood cares about: the bottom...
...bright spot for the Crimson came in the form of freshman Jennifer Martin, who came up big to begin the third frame by diving around the back row, denying the Big Green with two bumps and allowing Harvard to eventually earn its first point...