Word: earning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...upending Harvard 4-0 at the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships, hosted by the University of Washington, that neither member of the Crimson’s top duo was able to finish either of his matches, since Florida had already racked up the requisite number of victories to earn first the doubles point and then the match...
...Trey Johnson and Vlad Obradovic racked up a victory over senior Mark Riddell and sophomore Brandon Chiu, 8-5, to get Florida half of the two matches necessary to earn the doubles point...
...teams, both squads losing to Cornell—the meet’s champions—by about 70 points. The men mustered 23 points to the Bears’ 53.5 and the Big Red’s 90.5, while the women managed a few more, earn 24.5 points against 38.5 and 96 by the two visiting teams...
...Chris Baker, who helped conduct a survey for the World Bank, said most Thai businessmen don't trust the legal system, because they believe courts and cops can be bought. "Violence was quite a big option," says Baker. The country has an estimated thousand or so professional gunmen who earn their livings mainly by "solving" business conflicts. Few are ever caught. Shortly after Nopdol's arrest, Thaksin told the press that fingerprint evidence showed that more than one person was involved in Hangthong's death. Instructing police to investigate the original team that had concluded that the politician committed suicide...
Some of Weiner-Davis' recipes earn hoots from others in the fractious fraternity of couples therapists. Of her advice that troubled couples should "just do it!"--have sex to jump-start a passionless marriage--Schnarch retorts, "Telling low-desire spouses to just do something just pisses them off. Most couples seeking help are angry, and angry sex isn't very generous. These people would rather poke each other's eyes out than stroke each other's genitals...