Word: earned
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...tonight’s game, in which Hoyle will face an opponent who averages 3.7 goals per game. BU has put together a five-game winning streak, including a 3-1 victory over Merrimack on Friday night that saw the Terrier’s long-time coach, Jack Parker, earn his 800th career win. As the second-best team in the country, the Terriers bring all the usual attributes of a top-ranked squad to both ends of the ice. The Terriers bring a stingy defense led by senior Matt Gilroy, a two-time All-American whose name has already...
...just got to work on some skills over the next month.” Meyer claimed two of Harvard’s seven first-place finishes, winning the 500-yard and 1650-yard freestyle with times of 4:22.83 and 15:00.13, respectively. These times were good enough to earn Meyer NCAA “B” cut in both events. Sophomore Blake Lewkowitz and senior co-captain Eric Lynch also posted NCAA “B” times in the 1650 freestyle. Lynch recorded two additional NCAA “B” times throughout...
...professor who was famously early in predicting that the end of the housing boom would cause a financial crisis, estimates that continued loan losses will force U.S. banks to come up with an additional $1.4 trillion just to stave off bankruptcy. And since the banks aren't likely to earn much money or attract new investors anytime soon, much of the money will have to come from the government...
...increasingly uncomfortable shoes. Jarvis, proprietor of the influential media blog BuzzMachine, gleans maxims from Google's successful strategies that occasionally sound like doublespeak (Free is a business model! Abundance is the new scarcity! Correcting yourself enhances credibility!). But they boil down to practical suggestions: Put your customers in control. Earn their trust. Figure out what they actually want from you. And then get out of their...
...head of the Church since the Dec. 5 death of Patriarch Alexy II, was particularly adept at keeping warm relations with both Kremlin insiders and religious counterparts outside of Russia. His many contacts with the West, including a meeting in 2007 with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, helped earn Cyril a reputation as a pragmatic reformer who favored moving his Church closer to Catholicism after a millennium-long schism...