Word: earning
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...freshman in 2001, Carr exploded onto the scene, setting the single-game rookie rushing record with 185 yards against Dartmouth. He rode the momentum into his sophomore season, during which he broke the 200-yard rushing barrier twice and compiled 1,085 yards on the season, good enough to earn himself First-Team All-Ivy status...
Slipping through a collapsing wall of linebackers may earn a few extra yards. Avoiding that contact altogether may earn a few thousand, and will certainly protect a few extra wins...
There is a good reason for this. Most of the educated elite of this country will never, ever have to fight. They make the decision as to who does fight. The economic reality of the world is that those who can earn a living elsewhere doing something more profitable generally do so—the armed forces are largely for the poor or those who cannot otherwise get funding for a college education. These people seldom go on to senior positions in the State or Defense departments. Those positions go to Ivy League graduates who speak great things about international...
...jump-start an integration model that has broken down"; and he opposed the controversial law banning Muslim head scarves and other overt religious symbols in French schools. "You can't solve problems and enforce security through repressive measures alone," Sarkozy says. "I believe those who work more should earn more. But I also feel those facing unfair disadvantages and barriers should be helped to break through them until everyone is getting the same chances. I'm more for equity than equality. If that's an ideology, then you can label me with it." Sarkozy will find his political courage tested...
...evolution of health policy with interest. If bulk billing came to mean that patients paid a small sum from their own pockets, he confides, he could accept that. But he tends to think any bulk-billing crisis has been "manufactured" on behalf of doctors who resent that twentysomething stockbrokers earn more than they do. "The government could limit the doctors' charges under Medicare," Deeble says. "It's just that there's been a general agreement that the blood on the ground would be so bad that they never would. But I think some day they might have to." Perhaps. More...