Word: paycheck
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...Being a coach is more frustrating than stressful, because so much is beyond your control." He may draw up the brilliant play, but Yao Ming has to make the chip shot. Knowing that someday they are likely to be fired, Van Gundy and others take comfort in the big paychecks. Before he got to the top, he scraped along as a lowly assistant at the college and pro levels. Real stress, he says, is "living paycheck to paycheck to take care of the bills." Next to that, listening to 20,000 fans screaming for your head is easy...
...that's why it's such a favorite among screenwriters: since Christmas, we have had no fewer than three movies that revolve around people misplacing their memories. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet pay to have the memory of their lousy relationship erased. Paycheck was a sci-fi thriller about a man (Ben Affleck) whose employers wipe his memory for security purposes. (As an extra precaution, they then erased Paycheck from the memory of the entire moviegoing public.) And in 50 First Dates, Drew Barrymore plays a woman with amnesia who is endlessly wooed...
...They could lose their inspiration and their heart and still get the paycheck. We don’t have that choice. Either we love it or we won’t play...
...family home. Since the mid-'70s, the amount of the average family budget earmarked for the mortgage has increased a whopping 69% (adjusted for inflation). At the same time, the average father's income increased less than 1%. How to make up the difference? With Mom's paycheck, of course...
...There’s a huge public policy reason to not draw that distinction,” she said. “The powers wielded by the Harvard University Police Department are just like those of any other police officers, and to draw that line based on where their paycheck comes from seems to me to be a slippery slope...