Word: heftier
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Less prestigious schools may have to compensate for their lack of cachet by paying heftier salaries, Cotton said. And private donors are pitching in to help large public universities foot the bill for top-notch presidents. For example, Mark G. Yudof, the University of Texas chief, receives nearly 90 percent of his $651,000 compensation package from private sources...
Freshman Corey Mazza was probably warned about the “freshman 15,” but it’s his opponents who had better watch out for a heftier Harvard wide receiver...
...girl who mother-henned the world, gave lavishly to charity, acted like a star-struck kid meeting her idols--and like Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, had a daily TV show to promote herself and her magazine activities. What they got, two years later, was a new Rosie: a heftier, more assertive, left-wing, out-of-the-closet lesbian--with no show...
Moore's law holds that computers will continually get faster, but there's no corollary that says users will bother to buy them. Consumers no longer feel the need to upgrade to the latest hardware every time Intel unveils a speedier microprocessor or Microsoft releases a heftier version of Windows. According to the consumer technology-research firm Odyssey, home users nowadays are perfectly willing to go almost five years between PC purchases. Meanwhile, the computer industry, mired in its worst-ever sales slump, is desperate to dream up a compelling innovation that will put the forced back in forced obsolescence...
...Italy, Spain and Sweden. Police units, however, are only as effective as a country's laws. Italy's are stiff: up to four years in prison and a $15,000 fine for anyone caught selling, distributing, producing and importing illegal copyright-protected goods, plus a second system of even heftier fines. This year, Italian police have arrested 1,329 people for music-copyright violation alone, says Luca Vespignani, a music anti-piracy official who works for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But all too often, software providers say, pirates get off too easily. In March of 1998, Danish...