Word: earns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason was that Slippery Rock, the defending national champion and far and away the best team in the east, was also in Harvard's pool. So its loss to Bucknell meant that the Crimson could earn a 1-2 record at best, which means a one-way ticket to the losers' bracket...
...full time. The Southeast has a fertile music scene with plenty of places for young bands to find an audience, from the Georgia Theater in Athens to the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta to Rockafellas, the Elbow Room and Green Streets in Columbia (young bands on this circuit don't earn much; if you're in it for the money, move to Seattle). Hootie fitted right into the Southern pop-rock scene, playing clubs, bars, parties: any parties--birthday parties, frat parties, you name it. They would would sing REM and U2 covers and maybe a few Hootie originals, then crash...
Trade is only one side of the U.S.-Japan economic relationship; the other side is finance. The Japanese, seeking an outlet for the billions of dollars they earn from their exports, buy heavily in U.S. Treasury bills. By virtue of the trade deficit, Japan's holdings of U.S. Treasuries are huge. If Japan ever started selling those bonds, U.S. interest rates would rise and the stock market would plummet. As a Japanese official put it, "Japan can pull the trigger on U.S. financial markets." But Japan would hurt itself in the process. The rise in rates and the drop...
...performance, coupled with an outstanding week in which he had three extra base hits in four games and chalked up a .636 slugging percentage, was enough to earn Carey Rookie of the Week honors for the second consecutive week...
Connecting on four goals against Penn and six against Yale, the sophomore attacker also became the League's overall leading scorer with 32 goals and 20 assists. Her combined 52 points helped Princeton to earn at least a tie for the Ivy League title in its two unbalanced victories...