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...It’s a minimal time commitment,” says retired teacher Fran Sullivan of this twice-yearly way to earn money...
Moreover, that one point would give Harvard something no other school had managed to earn in 62 tries: a win over Illinois...
...should eliminate the $10 fee, which together with the $50 fee helps to discourage about 200 students each year from getting their photo taken to appear in the yearbook. Lost revenue could be made up through increased sales and a better contract with the studio. If HYP strove to earn money in other ways, everyone could afford to be included in the yearbook...
Berg, who was 26 when he died, was one of a small number of free-lancers in Baghdad hoping to make a buck and, his family recalled, do some good. A "tower guy," he figured he could earn as much as $20,000 a month repairing antennas in Iraq, a job that sometimes involved climbing hundreds of feet of latticework in 120 heat, according to business consultant and fellow free-lancer Andy Duke, who says he drank some beers with Berg the night before he disappeared...
Automakers have strong incentives not to ramp up hybrid production too quickly. Hybrids are technologically complex and costly and require the retraining of service technicians. Toyota and Honda insist they make money from each sale, but those profits are meager compared with what they earn from conventional cars and light trucks, especially their luxury brands. The Big Three--Ford, GM and Chrysler--are even more reliant on SUVs and big pickups for profits, and if hybrids eat into sales of conventional models, the industry would be maiming a critical cash cow. So while auto executives talk of a greener future...