Word: earning
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...Crude humor and violence used to earn films R ratings. These days, to get an R, you need to show something really outrageous, like a naked woman. (The system is still Puritanical in matters of sex, adult romance and flesh.) This trend, festering for a few years, looks rampant now. Why would that...
...RUDY GIULIANI'S performance after Sept. 11 in a spiritual way. His ex-wife DONNA HANOVER will reap something else: cold, hard cash. As mayor of New York City, Giuliani made $195,000 a year. Now that he is out of office, his vaunted status will enable him to earn $8 million in speaking fees this year alone. The windfall has resulted in Hanover's securing a divorce settlement more favorable than most ex-wives of public servants. Last week Giuliani agreed to pay Hanover $6.8 million, plus her legal fees and child support for their two children...
...Numbers 25 is the number of jobs oil company ChevronTexaco agreed to create for Nigerian villagers to end a standoff by local mothers demanding more posts for their sons $1 million is how much more the average U.S. college grad will earn in his lifetime compared to someone who only finishes high school, according to the Census Bureau 3 million teens seriously thought about or attempted suicide in 2000, says a survey by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, and only 36% received counseling $17.3 billion is the amount of money spent by the Federal Government...
...prices of many of today's stocks are based not on their earnings, but on the perception that their potential earnings will make the equities themselves desirable commodities, whose price will keep rising as more investors make the same leap of faith. Value, in other words, is easily replaced by the perception (and in many cases the illusion) of value as the cause of a stock's rise. The stock market's heady ascent over the past five years was driven often by faith in the performance of equities on Wall Street rather than by faith in the potential...
...turned out that Hart was bankrupt. The chronic spendthrift had entrusted much of his income to William Kron, a money manager recommended by Rodgers. Oddly, the money could not be found. Further, according to a new will that magically materialized, 30% of the money Hart's estate might earn from royalties was earmarked for Kron and his heirs. Another 20% would go to Hart's actor brother Teddy; but upon Teddy's death this portion would devolve to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, a favorite charity of Kron's. Teddy's son Larry, Hart's namesake...