Word: extras
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...addition to the dichotomy of the social circles, joint degree candidates and concurrent degree candidates usually take at least one extra year to complete their requirements...
...Students say the extra trials were ultimately worth...
...went, Reno told Podhurst his time was up, but she remained on the phone, not talking but on hold while Podhurst tried to get the family lawyers to wake up Lazaro and change his mind. Reno later explained that even at this late hour she wanted to go the extra mile. "She's always looking for consensus," observed a longtime Reno watcher a few days before the raid. "She wants Lazaro to be happy, Juan Miguel to be happy, the Justice Department to be happy. She wants everybody to be happy, and you can't have that...
...food-stamp issue also turns on simple accounting. Soldiers who live off base receive extra compensation to help defray their housing costs. But the Department of Agriculture, which runs the food-stamp program, counts that off-base allowance as income. Troops who live on a military installation and thus don't get that housing allowance are several thousand dollars a year poorer on paper than their compatriots who live off base. It's little wonder then that 60% of the troops who are eligible for food stamps live in military housing, though only a third of the force lives...
...workers, including part-timers, who did not get them before. And wage hikes are cropping up in other places. Tony Vallone, owner of six upscale restaurants in Houston, was paying only minimum wage to his dishwashers and kitchen-prep workers 18 months ago. Now the dishwashers get an extra $2 an hour and the prep people $3 extra--and they all share in a 401(k) investment plan that was formerly limited to higher-paid workers...