Word: raked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This summer I didn't want to endure the hour commute to New York City, I had told myself in January. I could work in the yogurt place in town, at the local park district. I'd rake in some money and have time to hang out with friends. The job might even...
Among the benefits of bulking up, the deal will land Hilton on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Bally owns two huge gaming palaces. Hilton has five casino hotels in Nevada but had been shut out of the lucrative Atlantic City market. The combined companies will rake in the chips at 15 casinos from Las Vegas to Istanbul, Turkey, and plan to open five more by the end of the decade. But Hilton, which last year earned half of its $353 million in operating income from gambling, is hardly turning its back on the lodging business. "We will...
When the story of the decline of Washington is written, historians may decide that its beleaguered citizens finally snapped on the day the city decided to seek out and fine homeowners who failed to rake leaves from the public space in front of their houses. The unraked-leaves strike force emerged this month after a winter of discontent, when the city with one of the nation's highest tax rates ran out of money and stopped providing some basic services. The streets are almost never clean (grit and cigarette butts blow up from littered gutters on K Street), only...
Steven Jobs, the co-founder and later ousted chairman of Apple Computer, stands to rake in a windfall of more than $1 billion as his latest venture, Pixar Animation Studios, issues a public offering of stock. Pixar, a tiny computer company based in Richmond, California, created the current blockbuster movie Toy Story. Jobs bought the company for $10 million...
...spacious homes and private therapy to sneer at their financial inferiors and label their pathetic moments of stardom vulgar. But if I had a talk show, it would feature a whole different cast of characters and category of crimes than you'll ever find on the talks: "ceos who rake in millions while their employees get downsized" would be an obvious theme, along with "Senators who voted for welfare and Medicaid cuts"--and, if he'll agree to appear, "well-fed Republicans who dithered about talk shows while trailer-park residents slipped into madness and despair...