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My student Brigitte Harris, who is from Ontario, immediately observed many peculiarities of usage when she arrived in Montreal to earn an M.A. degree in applied linguistics at Concordia University.
All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt.
A rough study by the CBO found that enlisted service members earned higher wages than three-quarters of male civilian high-school graduates of the same age, and officers earn higher wages than three-quarters of college graduates of the same age.
Chatterbox already knew Fannie Mae was one of the last great Washington rackets--a place where ordinary, competent, well-connected politicos and lawyers get to earn astronomical, Gordon Gekko-like sums (Johnson made an estimated $7.2 million in 1996) while working to preserve the government favors that help this ostensibly private, for-profit enterprise earn $3 billion or so a year.
Anyway, the eight minutes I don't spend in the kitchen will probably not be used to earn more income.