Word: earning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...front of what Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni called “some of the most knowledgeable people in hockey,” the Crimson took it upon itself to earn some respect. It needed this bit of redemption—however insignificant in the all-important Pairwise Rankings—for last Monday’s near miss with BU and its other non-conference transgressions this season...
...that seems excessive, keep in mind that part of the new, hoped-for culture of the boardroom will be that directors will no longer sit on more boards than they can serve well. Companies won't stand for it, and if most board members finally do earn their pay, investors, too, will be well rewarded...
...comment was particularly stinging because Dartmouth went on to earn a controversial spot in the national tournament over Harvard, and Ruggiero did not play another collegiate game for over two years due U.S. national commitments. When Harvard beat Dartmouth 9-2 in the first weekend of this season, Ruggiero acknowledged that the 2000 defeat was still weighing on her mind...
...always know some outrage against the more affluent among us will follow. As in “the top 50% [of all wage earners] pay a whopping 96.09% of all income taxes.” (Later on we learn that this top 50% also happens to earn [a whopping?] 87.01% of all income, so we aren’t quite as ready to hit the barricades...
...don’t the above figures shock Currie for another reason, that is, that a whopping 50% of all American wage earners pay no income tax because they couldn’t possible pay it? That half of all American workers earn so little that the government has figured out it’s pointless trying to shake them down for their “fair share” of all the benefits the government supplies us with: the cost of negotiating and administrating NAFTA, of the CIA toppling foreign governments on behalf of their vital business interests...