Word: earning
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...took Anita Bryant and Erieka Bennett all of a day last May to earn their commission on what was supposed to have been a three-week gig. Together, Bryant and Bennett run the Bridge, a consultancy that helps African Americans who would like to invest in Africa navigate the continent's folkways, and they were trying hard to shepherd a delegation filled with prominent clients through Ghana without mishap. The delegation was celebrating the signing of a sister-city agreement between Washington and Accra. And while most of the entourage was excited about visiting the capital, no one would have...
...opening days of the conference. These include the development of microbicides, oral drugs to prevent HIV infection, and even male circumcision. There still isn't enough evidence yet that proves any of these strategies can actually halt the spread of the disease, but they are promising enough to earn new infusions of research dollars and scientists' time. This of course doesn't mean that the traditional prevention approaches - Abstain, Be Faithful and Use condoms, - shouldn't still be a cornerstone of any responsible HIV-AIDS program. It just means that experience has shown that ABC isn't always possible...
...detention - he'd been taken into police custody the night before after men who had been following him around in a car accused him of stealing a wallet, according to his friend and fellow lawyer, Teng Biao - Chen sat through a trial on charges that could earn him five years in jail. According to another of his lawyers, who had spoken to Chen's brother, Chen vomited during the trial. It was, wrote longtime China law scholar Jerome Cohen, in an e-mail sent to reporters, an "understandable and appropriate" response to "the nauseating nature of the unfair sanctions that...
...million registered users. The company's home is a tidy, landscaped campus where employees, the best and brightest from universities in Beijing and Shanghai, come to work in blue jeans instead of sewing them together in sweatshops. Some of the software engineers at Ma's R&D center earn $5,000 a month, 50 times a typical Chinese factory salary...
...schools insist they are open to all. At Harvard, families that earn less than $40,000 a year don't have to contribute a penny to their kids' education; Yale and Stanford do the same for families making $45,000 or less. But for middle- and upper-middle-class families, the sticker shock at an élite university can be overwhelming. And the recent interest-rate hike of almost 2% on government-backed loans only increases the distress...