Word: earning
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...flabbergasted to learn the sum of sponsorship money pocketed annually by the Premier League, National Basketball Association and National Football League [May 21]. The salaries of top players are augmented the same way. The majority of us would take a lifetime to make the amount of money these players earn in just one week. It is truly astonishing. I wonder whether they deserve such large sums. Wouldn't the money be better spent combatting poverty, global warming, aids? The list goes on and on. Lee Boon Siew, Kuala Lumpur...
...seems to think honest students are hurt by the expression of mistrust implicit in using Turnitin. Those students are smart enough to know that they are hurt much more if the authenticity of their good work is questioned and their achievements are undermined because their peers are able to earn the same marks for papers obtained with a credit card instead of a work ethic...
...statute's ambiguous wording is fair game, but why read it to frustrate Title VII's purpose: to ease pay discrimination in a nation where women make only 77˘ on average for every $1 that men earn? And while employers might like this decision, they could end up choking on the torrent of lawsuits that might now come their way. "The real message is that if you have any inkling that you are being paid differently, you need to file now, before the 180 days are up," says Michael Foreman of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights...
...Reeves has been in financial hot water before, when the FBI investigated allegations of financial wrongdoing during his previous mayoral term. But given the political theater of this year’s scandals—farcical enough to earn the title “Ken’s crazy Chronicle kerfuffle” from The Boston Globe—Reeves could find himself in an unusually tenuous position entering this November’s council election...
...Winters speculated in an earlier interview that Galluccio could likely earn a council victory even while focusing on the senate race. However, doing so might diminish the large margin of victory he normally earns in council elections, freeing up votes for other candidates...