Word: earned
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...have a beenz in your virtual pocket, maybe you should. beenz (the trademarked word is both singular and plural) are a new kind of money that circulates exclusively on the Internet. There are no beenz coins or beenz bills. The only place you can earn beenz is on the Web, and the Web is the only place you can spend them. beenz are the product of a company called Beenz.com that hopes to make them the currency of the Internet, and they may be the future of cash as we know it. In five years, says Beenz.com founder Charles Cohen...
Here's how beenz work. First, you open a free account with Beenz.com a New York City-based outfit that's been in business since 1998. You then earn beenz by visiting certain websites that give beenz away as a means of rewarding customer loyalty, in exchange for personal information or as a reward to surfers for just showing up. Hence the name--"You get something just for having 'been' there," explains Beenz.com chairman and CEO Philip Letts. Among the sites that offer this virtual token of their esteem are Excite UK, Dash, FortuneCity and the Motley Fool. Then, once...
Billy Crystal won't be cracking jokes as host of the Academy Awards show until next month, but the actor had to deliver an Oscar-worthy performance last night to earn his pudding pot at the Hasty Pudding's Man of the Year award ceremony...
...Crimson defense--or lack thereof--certainly made "Presto" earn it. After just slightly outchancing the Crimson in the first period, the Huskies poured on the shots in the second. Northeastern outshot Harvard 19-2 in the middle period, and for once a shot total accurately reflected the relative play...
...keep legal eagles hungry, law firms are taking some of the money that goes to partners--who typically earn a seven-figure "draw"--and redirect it to associates, who do much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First-year compensation packages will top $140,000, up from under $100,000 just three years ago. The higher wages are designed to ward off dotcoms seeking to hire lawyers directly rather than "rent" them through a firm. "The legal industry is unique in that corporations...