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...teachers bail? One of the biggest reasons is pay. U.S. public-school teachers earn an average annual salary of less than $48,000, and they start off at an average of about $32,000. That's what Karie Gladis, 29, earned as a new teacher in Miami. She scrimped for 31⁄2 years and then left for a job in educational publishing. "It was stressful living from paycheck to paycheck," she says. "If my car broke down or if I needed dental work, there was just no wiggle room...
...unnoticed trader thus became a romantic dragon-slayer. A few days ago, he told Agence France Presse, “I never had any personal ambition in this affair. The aim was to earn money for the bank…You lose your sense of the sums involved when you are in this kind of work.…You get a bit carried away...
...important to talk about the injuries,” O’Connor said. “What really matters is that so many guys have stepped up to contribute to this team.” Knapp agreed that every member of the team had worked hard to earn the first victories for the Crimson and added that junior Patrick Ziemnick and sophomore Fred Rowsey had been huge in helping the team cope with early setbacks.“Obviously, the upcoming matches in the Ivy League—Brown, Columbia, Cornell—are big,” Knapp...
...third of married women in the U.S. earn more than their husbands, but it's still a challenge to make the problems of big shots appeal to a mass audience. Some of the stories on Lipstick and Cashmere are universal: both have had plots about juggling work with a son's birthday party. Others are less so: What to do when your nanny raids the good Bordeaux or writes a tell-all roman clef about...
...appearances, Romney approached the problem of winning the White House with the same rigor of the "strategic audits" that allowed him to earn more than $100 million as a business consultant at Bain Capital. Beginning shortly after his victory as Massachusetts governor, he appeared to shift his more moderate stances on a number of hot-button issues. In each case, his new position lined up remarkably well with the conservative base of the Republican Party. Just years after courting the gay vote in Massachusetts, Romney became a national spokesman for the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. After running two campaigns...