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Example sentences for: earn

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Eisner is himself a huge holder of Disney stock who, after clearing an ambitious hurdle (Disney has to earn an 11 percent after-tax return on shareholders' equity), also receives an annual bonus equal to 2 percent of Disney's above-hurdle profits.
If a person works for 40 years, they'll probably earn over $1 million on that $16,000."
If two partners earn $40,000 each, a decision to get married could, on its face, cost them more than $1,000.
These families, he says, earn "$400 less than they would have received by staying on welfare."
In some cases, one wonders what some highly compensated top executives were doing to earn their pay given their public statements and testimonies subsequent to the decline of their companies.