Word: earned
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...purpose of the alternative senior gift is twofold. It provides people with an opportunity to come together as a class to support important causes, and it sends a message to Harvard that it has to earn our financial support and that its current policies and initiatives do not warrant the kind of gift we are being asked to give," Orr wrote in an e-mail message...
...unknowingly exposed to carcinogens, forced to work unpaid hours and often end up working 50 to 80 hours a week in order to feed themselves and their families. Child labor is common, as are forced abortions to keep women working. As in the United States, women employees often earn less than men for the same work, but that difference is lethal when even the highest paid men are earning under a dollar per hour...
...lower-level maintenance. He played himself in "The Sunshine Boys" and "The Player," and in fictionalized biographies of Jack Kerouac and Jerry Lee Lewis. He continued to indulge his polymathic talents and appetites. It wasn't that he was terrific at everything he tried; most of his efforts would earn a B-plus to B-minus. But he tried so many things - and so much of them...
...Coach wants to make sure we earn everything we do on the team," he says...
...partly generational. The kids on the streets are unlikely to listen to the cautionary advice of elders who they see as enfeebled by decades of Israeli occupation. In the face of their powerless parents, the "authority" projected by demagogues hawking martyrdom and the promise that sacrifice and confrontation will earn their freedom has an irresistible appeal for many young Palestinians. And, of course, parents may have a hard time stopping their children from doing what they themselves grew up doing - after all, the occupation began 33 years ago. Arafat should know better than anyone, because he was once a young...