Word: earned
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...Actress in her other December drama, The Reader; both were among the five finalists for Best Motion Picture - Drama. The others were Slumdog, Benjamin Button and one film, Frost/Nixon, that didn't figure prominently in the critics' fancies. (Doubt was aced out of a Best Drama nod, but did earn nominations for all four principal actors: Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and - woo hoo! - Viola Davis...
...becoming a whole lot better at consuming more and saving less. But, while the authoritarian government continues to pull the strings in many parts of society, Beijing cannot simply order citizens to buy Gucci for the good of the country and the world. Chinese save much of what they earn because the government has yet to provide the web of social services available in other countries. China's national social security system and government health-insurance schemes are drastically underfunded, and moreover don't cover the millions of migrant workers who helped power the country to high growth...
...attract and support h ighly qualified candidates who have recently or will shortly earn their Ph.D., the FAS is developing a new program akin to a teaching post-doc. You will soon receive a description of this program. This program provides one way in which the FAS can support our Ph.D. students who are graduating into what looks to be a tight job market. At the same time, we must support our continuing graduate students...
...Jantzen (141 lbs.) returned to the mat for the first time this season after battling a knee injury all fall, and did not disappoint, as he joined Bode Ogunwole ’07 as the only Harvard wrestlers ever to earn a title in Las Vegas...
...Obviously, the United States need not go as far as China by executing these hucksters, nor should it react so sensitively as Latvia, where simply bringing up the financial crisis in a public setting can earn you two years in jail. Yet the U.S. justice system can at least make a symbolic gesture in denying the parole of corporate criminals recently convicted for crimes. Their sentences were hailed not long ago for the strong signal they sent to would-be embezzlers; the time is right to use strict enforcement of those sentences to restate that message...