Word: garnering
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...average paycheck of $168,700, a figure that trails only the New York-based biomedical science research center Rockefeller University, where professors get paid $172,800 on average, according to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Associate professors at Harvard average a $97,100 salary, and assistant professors garner $87,300 in pay, according to the AAUP data. Harvard’s traditional rivals lag far behind, with Yale University ranking sixth on the list—as professors net an average salary of $151,200. Princeton University can boast a third-place finish with average full-professor...
...audience saw it. "Personally, I think it's great," says Jackson. "They saved the movie." When the actor first signed on, he and Ellis agreed that people who like the title are probably not easily offended. But when Jackson arrived for shooting, the script had been neutered to garner a PG-13 rating. "They restricted my cursing and restricted the gore," he says. "It was kind of a waste of time...
...human rights, while lambasting the current resolution for its lenient admission procedures. John R. Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., sharply criticized the newly established Human Rights Council, calling it only marginally better than its predecessor. The U.S. proposal, unlike the one that passed, required member nations to garner a super majority of the vote rather than a simple majority in order to win a seat on the council. The more stringent standard was meant to prevent countries like Iran and Sudan—notorious for their gross violations of human rights—from gaining membership, as they...
...Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps? elite Quds Force, a special forces outfit much like the Green Berets, with specialized skills in working with local forces and militias. A senior U.S. military intelligence officer claims, ?Ghomi is Quds Force,? and part of a ?full-spectrum effort? by the Revolutionary Guards to garner influence in Iraq. But in an interview with TIME, Ghomi, who rarely talks with the Western press, denied he is playing a military role in Iraq. He says most of his generation of government officials served, as did he, in the Revolutionary Guards? Baseej (?volunteer?) units during the Iran-Iraq...
This family drama cum spy series from J.J. Abrams (Lost) ends this spring after five years. But it seems longer, given how often the show reinvented itself, changing Sydney Bristow (Garner) from a double to a single agent and turning bad guys to good and back. In the penultimate season, Bristow discovers the secrets of a long-lost sister and untangles a plot involving--oh, I have only a paragraph? Then let's just say that, for all its wild twists, Alias is emotionally grounded by A+ actors like Victor Garber (as Sydney's caring but ruthless dad), Ron Rifkin...