Word: earning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anyone with half a brain has Princeton here. The Tigers were the only team besides Penn to earn a first-place vote in the preseason media poll, and Yale was all the way down in the four-spot. I don’t have half a brain. I have a full...
Patrick’s personal story attests to his inspiring leadership potential. Born to a struggling single mother in one of Chicago’s most impoverished neighborhoods, Patrick overcame tremendously unfavorable odds to earn a scholarship to Milton Academy and a place at Harvard College and Harvard Law. In both the private and public sectors, he has fought to give other disadvantaged youths the opportunity to mirror his own rise to success...
...giant “if”: the Crimson would have to beat eighth-seeded UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday and have Gardner-Webb (a team whose nickname, quite ironically, is the Bulldogs) upset ninth-seeded Clemson on the same day.But then, in this glorious hypothetical, Harvard would earn one more home game as the higher seed, and the contest would be slated to take place here in Cambridge on Saturday or Sunday. Isn’t the one thing that could save a disaster of a tailgate the prospect that probably the biggest game any Crimson team will...
...Stone was concerned. “A win without [Chu, Vaillancourt, and Cahow] is much more valuable than a win with them,” Stone said, “Because it is giving other kids an opportunity to step up, contribute, make things happen and earn their stripes...
Thus local firms are eagerly teaming up with the foreign giants, which contribute their names and expertise, and also ensure that the hotels are designed to their usual standards. The foreign firms earn steady management fees for running the hotels, while the Chinese partners tend to put up the cash for construction...