Word: earning
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...still can't believe the prices they fetch. "Before the Japanese came, there were so many songrong, we would use baskets to gather them," Sui-nong recalls. "We'd put them in soup or sell them at the market for three yuan [35?] a kilo." Today, top-quality matsutake earn pickers $18 each, skyrocketing to $500 per kilogram during the meager end-of-season period. "We don't eat them anymore," Sui-nong exclaims. "It's just too expensive!" Sitting around a blazing fire, Sui-nong examines the day's harvest. "Now everybody wants to pick mushrooms. But they pick...
...while Dawson’s one-dimensional dominance suffices to earn him the label “great,” his talent, Harvard coach Tim Murphy suspects, extends well-beyond just taking Fitzpatrick’s handoff before plowing full speed ahead...
From there, the Harvard defense took over and matched Furman’s physical style of play to earn the shut...
...hunting. Animal charities show their greed if they tolerate this practice. You noted that hunters pay as much as $80,000 to shoot a lion in Tanzania (where the per capita income is around $600). What is an individual's life worth there? Local communities should be encouraged to earn money through sustainable tourism and agriculture. If citizens can support themselves by sharing their wilderness and wildlife with tourists, poaching will decrease. Killing for pleasure sends the wrong message. Helaine Cadman Marlow, England I fear that humankind's plundering of the habitat of these majestic animals and misguided attitudes toward...
...also works to the advantage of the men of war - with unemployment at around 80 percent, the job prospects for many fighting-age Chechen men are restricted to joining the pro-Moscow militias or doing contract work for the rebels. (Bombing an oil pipeline, for example is believed to earn a Chechen fighter in the region of $400, a princely sum in a pauperized population.) And for many, particularly the "black widows" who have seen fathers, brothers and husbands killed by the Russian security forces, revenge is as powerful a motive as money - the suicide bombers of both airliners...