Word: earns
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This logic is unpersuasive. After all, what is the purpose of a memorial? What is it that elevates a memory, even a communal memory, to something more? Does simply going to war earn soldiers a monument at this university? Is a memorial merely an empirical marker, and the list of names displayed on it simply a ledger, informing posterity of those who died in which war? Or do we mean something more substantial when we build a memorial? Indeed...
...best guess of the analysts is that the 30 companies in the Dow Jones industrials will earn a combined $347.50 per share in 1996. If these 30 stocks sell for an average of 171/2 times earnings, we might even see a 20% gain in stocks and a 6000 Dow in 1996. But this is where the doubts creep in, owing to the sluggish economy and the silence at the cash registers...
These days, people talk a lot about making magazines hot. That usually translates into being a bit sensational, sometimes even cynical. Our goal is different. At a time when people have become distrustful of the press--and of politics and institutions in general--we have to earn the authority that comes from reporting hard, so that we will be truthful in our storytelling, and thinking hard, so that we will be credible in our assessments...
...these pursuits for so long is due in large measure to its 13 managing editors, or "boss men," as the first one, Henry Luce, once called them. Each and every one has taken to heart what Luce said were the primary responsibilities of all Time Inc. editors: "To earn, maintain and to leave behind a great and good reputation as a journalist," and "to make some contribution to the general welfare...
Republicans want to allow Social Security recipients to earn $30,000 before they lose some of their benefits. The G.O.P. also wants to repeal the 1993 tax increase on benefits received by retirees. Both measures passed the House; the Senate is considering them. Clinton has not said whether he will sign them...